Prison Break - Season One | 
 enlarge | Directors: Bobby Roth, Brad Turner, Brett Ratner, Dean White, Dwight H. Little
Actors: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 999
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 960
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: FOXD2236083D
UPC: 024543260820
EAN: 0024543260820
ASIN: B000FKO3GW
Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 2005
Release Date: August 8, 2006
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Most men would do anything to get out of fox river penitentiary but michael will do anything to get in. His brother has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit & the only way to save him is from the inside out. Armed with an intricate escape plan michael gets incarcerated & the race against time is on. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 966 minutes
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Season one of Prison Break is great television. Here's the set-up. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is framed and wrongfully convicted for assassinating the Vice President's brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who just happens to have designed Illinois' Fox River Penitentiary where Lincoln is on death row, hatches an elaborate escape plan. Michael's plan involves getting himself incarcerated in Fox River and smuggling the prison's blueprints by having them hidden in tattoos that cover his entire torso. Once inside, Michael must form alliances with a rogue's gallery of felons with their own sometimes unsavory motives. Meanwhile, on the outside, Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), pursued by Secret Service agents, attempts to unravel the conspiracy that sent her man to the slammer.
Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare, famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests. Midway through the season it's explained that Scofield is a genius with an heightened sensitivity to other peoples' suffering, which sums up what makes the show so great--the mind-bendingly intricate plot is a framework for moments when people make others suffer and cope with the burden of their own suffering.
The six-disc set includes 22 addictive episodes, audio commentary on selected episodes, three featurettes, and alternate and deleted scenes. As with most TV shows on DVD, the "previously on Prison Break" intros can get tiresome, but that's what the fast forward button is for. --Ryan Boudinot
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fabuloso!!!!!!!!!!! November 18, 2008
This purchase had been a long time coming. I'm glad I decided to buy on Amazon. It was affordable and the seller was very prompt. Thanks!!!!!!
Season One of My Favorite TV show November 9, 2008
Shows such as Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, the old X-files are, to a significant degree, reflections of how many of us perceive the world around us during these uncertain and unsettled times:
- larger portions of our lives are influenced or even controlled by high-level entities or organizations who now have the means to implement their agendas
- things are almost never what they seem because hidden forces are at work
- only very few insiders completely understand and control and set the agendas for these all-controlling entities
- we should consider ourselves lucky if we can figure out the who's and the how's that change our world but we may never get to know the why's
- these hidden and mysterious 'powers that be' plot, plan and act globally
On 'Season 1' Michael Scowfield gets himself convicted so that he can be sent to prison so that he can help his brother, who is (unjustly) on death row, escape. Does it sound over-complicated? It does, because it is. While working on the escape, Michael, a control freak and a genius, interacts with a dozen inmate characters, ranging from mid-level Mafia types, to unjustly convicted, to unlucky, to mentally deranged, to truly sadistic, vicious murderers. And, there's the world outside. He has friends who help him and his brother has extremely powerful enemies - how does the President of the U.S. look like, when we think of enemies? Well... she's far from being the most powerful because there is this mysterious 'company', controlled by we don't know exactly whom attempting to implement some agenda we are not aware of (see the first paragraphs of this review for more clarifications).
We own seasons 1, 2, and 3 already and we are looking forward for the upcoming Season 4 release - sorry, there's way too much suspense for me to watch this on TV, one weekly hour at a time.
AWESOME SHOW! October 30, 2008
I just started watching this show a few months ago, and it is AMAZING! I love the acting as well as the production. I have flown through the past 3 seasons because I couldn't stop watching them!!!!
Prison Break Season 1 is awesome! October 17, 2008
This is a nail biter...you always wonder what's going to happen next. There's a little romance for the ladies and a little action for the men, with a whole lot of drama.
Great show; limited extras. October 11, 2008
I love the show. I started watching in season 2, so this was my "catch up" DVD set.
There were lots of commentary tracks, but I don't tend to listen to those. Other than that, the features were pretty limited. But, for me, I was buying to actually watch the series, so that was fine.
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