starring: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker, Kirk Acevedo
directed by: Alan Taylor, Darnell Martin, Gregory Dark, Jean de Segonzac, Larry Williams
directed by: Alan Taylor, Darnell Martin, Gregory Dark, Jean de Segonzac, Larry Williams
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783120669
Feature: From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner) and Tom Fontana, OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans -
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0783120664
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Label: Hbo Home Video
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: D99204D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 451 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1997
Features:
- From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner) and Tom Fontana, OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans -
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Product Description:
From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man Diner) and Tom Fontana OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims Latinos Italians Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies. OZ is a wake-up call.Running Time: 480 min.System Requirements:Running Time 451 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359920424 Manufacturer No: 99204
Amazon.com:
HBO's violent men-behind-bars drama is an addictive, testosterone-driven soap opera for guys. The eight episodes of the first season set the style for the show: a massive cast of a vivid characters on both sides of the bars, four or five stories unleashed at a breakneck pace and framed by angry, oddball introductions, and a soaring casualty rate. Created by Homicide producer Tom Fontana, this drama quickly earned its rightful reputation as the most brutal show on TV. It's simple chemistry: combine volatile ingredients in a confined space, shut tight, and shake.
The yellow brick road of the Oswald Correctional Facility (affectionately known as "Oz" among the inmates) leads to "Emerald City," an antiseptic cellblock of cement and glass overseen by prison-reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). The first episode introduces its two most compelling inmates: meek lawyer Beecher (Lee Terguson), who transforms from a vulnerable lamb to a fearless, drug-addicted wildcat, and Muslim activist Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker), a fiercely non-violent leader whose campaign for reform explodes in a season-climaxing riot. The stunning first-season cast also features Ernie Hudson (the warden), Rita Moreno (a worldly drug-counseling nun), and Edie Falco (who jumped from her role as a single-mother prison guard to mob wife in The Sopranos). It carries no rating, but the drug use, nudity, and brutal violence make this highly inappropriate for young viewers and unsuited to the squeamish. Oz pulls no punches in its portrayal of prison violence and predatory abuse. --Sean Axmaker
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- OZ: Giving depth to the darkness of prisonIf you've never 'done time', and think you know what prison is all about, think again. You can be sure,'OZ' WILL make you stop and think. And if you have doubts that a show about the daily grind in the big house would be very interesting, that opinion will be changed 10 minutes into the first episode.
The Good:
'OZ' is set as an East Coast penitentiary, and does a remarkable job of recreating the environment one finds in prison. The cast is truly first rate; characters from ... Read More
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- the first and bestI'm a netflix user and netflix suggested that I would LOVE this series. So without ever watching it, I just went ahead and bought the entire series. It was a GREAT decision. Oz predates the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and many more that follow its format, but Oz is clearly the original and THE BEST. The storyline can feel a little jumpy because there's always so much going on, but it's completely engrossing. When I got all six seasons, I finished them in less than ... Read More
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- A work of pure fiction. Too unbelievable to even watch!!!If you want to watch something completely mindless and ridiculous, Oz is for you. This has to be THE most far-fetched, ridiculous prison show I've ever seen. It's just too painful to watch- Where to begin?? There are no cameras anywhere in the prison apparently; the inmates are allowed to basically supervise themselves (no officers are watching them anywhere apparently except the two in the block); inmates run the kitchen & prepare all the food completely unsupervised; they wear regular clothes and hang ... Read More
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- Oz DVD reviewGood extras; great show; still a little overpriced even on sale for only 8 episodes.
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- Exactly what was told to me.I have been ordering from AstroVideo the HBO series Oz. It has been exactly what I hoped it would be. Delivered on a timely manner and of excellent quality. The price was great aw well. Thanks Astrovideo! and thank you Amazon!
