One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season
by Billy Dickson, Bryan Gordon, David Carson, Duane Clark, Gregory Prange
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Actor: Bethany Joy Galeotti, Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, James Lafferty, Sophia BushDirector: Billy Dickson, Bryan Gordon, David Carson, Duane Clark, Gregory Prange
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 944 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Great Series, Worth every Penny!
Summary: 5 Stars
One Tree Hill is one of the only shows I watch faithfully every week. I knew of Chad Michael Murray and had nothing to do one night, so I watched the pilot. It was okay, nothing earth shattering. However, I apparently had nothing to do the next week and it got increasingly better. Chad Michael Murray and the super-gorgeous James Lafferty play half brothers who are seemingly very different. Lucas (Murray) grew up without a father, living with his sweet but tough mother Karen (the awesome Moira Kelley.) His Uncle Keith (Craig Sheffer) acted as his father figure and gave him advice as he grew up. Nathan (played to perfection by Lafferty) is the tall dark and handsome basketball star. He grew up with father Dan (Paul Johansson) and mother Deb (Barbara Alyn Woods) and is extremely wealthy, spoiled, and popular. Dan, although the father of both Lucas and Nathan, only really acknowledges Nathan and treats Lucas like a mistake. Nathan's girlfriend Peyton (Hilarie Burton) is the beautiful blonde cheerleader. However, she is pretty depressed, into punk rock, and very cynical. Her mother died and her father is rarely in town. She would be a major downer if it weren't for her bubbly best friend Brooke (the awesome Sophia Bush.) Brooke is also a cheerleader and keeps Peyton from being a depressing character. They have a great sisterly bond and are a lot of fun to watch together. Brooke is the typical beautiful rich cheerleading captain, but she actually has a brain. Last but not least, there is Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz) the pretty but plain best friend of Lucas. Never popular, rich or a cheerleader, Haley is known as "tutor girl." When Lucas makes the Tree Hill High basketball team, all of these separate worlds combine.
The most fun part of this show is watching the characters evolve very naturally. Nathan is pretty much a rich jerk, who treats Peyton like [...]. He's rude to Lucas when he joins the team and acts like he's better than everyone else. However, with the jerk of a father he lives with, constantly pressuring him, you can kind of relate and feel bad for Nathan. When Peyton gets sick of it all and dumps him, you see him start to wake up a little bit. Although he has some more bad moments (going after Haley to mess with Lucas), he eventually becomes the good guy you always thought he could be. He ends up really falling in love with Haley and she definitely changes him for the better.
Lucas, always the good upstanding guy, changes too. He falls for Peyton, but her moodiness and lack of communication tears them apart. When he is told he is "too serious" and goes out with Brooke, she really falls for him. Meanwhile, he and Peyton still have feelings for each other, and hook up behind Brooke's back. This love triangle is very well written, and well played by Bush, Murray, and Burton. You feel horrible for Brooke, the girlfriend who is just desperately in love with Lucas but really has nothing in common with him. You want to be mad at Lucas, the jerk who is cheating on his girlfriend, but he is so genuinely desperate to be with Peyton, he will do anything. He tries so hard not to hurt Brooke. Then you see Peyton, the girl struggling to not betray her beloved best friend, but she is totally in love with Lucas at the same time. It gets very messy! With Dan as the villain, the jerky dad, who does and says things so horrible you can't believe him, Deb as the desperate housewife, Karen as the hardworking single mother, and Keith, as Dan's kind older brother who is in love with Karen, this show will keep you riveted. After three seasons, it only keeps getting better.
Description of One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/17/2007 Run time: 944 minutes Rating: NrOne Tree Hill: The Complete First Season marks the beginning of a genuinely engrossing series that maintains, for a long while, an unusual focus on a single, powerful conflict defining the destinies of two characters. Adolescent half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott have lived parallel lives in One Tree, North Carolina. They share a common father, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), who has disregarded the existence of Lucas, his son by a one-time flame, Karen (Moira Kelly), whom he dumped years before to accept a basketball scholarship to college. While neglecting Lucas, Dan--whose hoop dreams never materialized--has spent his time almost perversely micro-managing every one of Nathan's moves on and off the court at his old high school, where the lad is currently an arrogant superstar under gruff-but-wise coach Whitey Durham (Barry Corbin). Nathan (whose mother is separated from Dan) is a child of privilege and has been raised to disregard teamwork, compromise, or the feelings of others. He regards Lucas, a basketball sensation on neighborhood playgrounds, as trash, and his own girlfriend, Peyton (Hilarie Burton), as a pretty bauble he can abuse and dismiss at will. Still, he's sympathetic; one can see glimpses of the human being struggling to emerge from under Dan's control.
Meanwhile, Lucas helps Karen run her café, hangs out with platonic best friend Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), and pines for Peyton (herself a punky misfit at heart). He also turns to surrogate dad Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer)--actually his uncle and Dan's older brother--for support, and sees himself as a perpetual and doomed outsider in One Tree. All that changes when Whitey invites Lucas to join the b-ball team that Nathan dominates, a move that challenges the status quo of multiple relationships in a small community. For about a third of its episodes, this series from creator Mark Schwahn (who wrote the hit film Coach Carter) stays true to the suspense surrounding Lucas's and Nathan's changes in fortune. Then a bit of padding follows to the end of the season; there are 22 episodes to fill out, after all. But even as various distractions (a kidnapping subplot, a car accident and coma for a major character) and random events creep in (Dan, rather incredibly, takes over the team from Whitey at one point, thus coaching both his sons), One Tree Hill remains highly watchable. The writing is shaped well and organic, while performances are consistently excellent. (It's especially good to see Sheffer, perhaps best known for A River Runs Through It, again.) --Tom Keogh
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