Amazing Stories - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Cheryl McWilliams, Ray WalstonBrand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 621 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MCA/Universal Television
Movie Reviews of Amazing Stories - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Not bad but not up to what I expected.
Summary: 3 Stars
Altogether, I liked the Amazing Stories. I must say, though, that I found a few of them predictable and sometimes "dull".
Summary of Amazing Stories - The Complete First Season
As one experience ends another adventure begins in the extraordinary worlds of Amazing Stories! From acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment comes the Emmy Award-winning TV series available on DVD for the first time ever. Join a roster of cinema s most illustrious stars including Kiefer Sutherland Charlie Sheen Tim Robbins John Lithgow Kevin Costner and more as well as some of Hollywood s greatest directorial talents in this epic collection of all 24 groundbreaking Season One episodes. Relive all the mesmerizing magic mystery and suspense in these unique episodes from some of filmmaking s finest storytellers!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 025192526329 Manufacturer No: 25263Steven Spielberg's mid-'80s foray into television, Steven Spielberg Presents Amazing Stories, was based loosely on a pulpy sci-fi magazine from the '40s and '50s--much as his rollicking hit Raiders of the Lost Ark had been based on movie action serials of the same era. Yet despite the retro concept, Amazing Stories brought high gloss and state-of-the-art production values to their yarns of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. The boxed set of the first season (which debuted in 1985), contains all 24 episodes, as well as more than 20 minutes of deleted footage. Spielberg himself was very hands-on in the series, and directed many episodes and wrote most, and some themes from his later films show up here. In The Mission, a special hourlong episode (most are half an hour), stars Kevin Costner and Kiefer Sutherland play World War II bombers whose plane is hit during a routine mission, and who face a dire choice, with one young colleague's life hanging in the balance. Spielberg's visceral direction of the wartime violence, camaraderie, and anxiety is pitch-perfect, and presages some of the most moving moments in Saving Private Ryan. Part of the fun of this collection is seeing the stars and guest directors Spielberg cajoled into service, including Martin Scorsese, Sam Waterston (with a head of bushy '80s hair), Tim Robbins, Clint Eastwood, Harvey Keitel, and John Lithgow. The storytelling is crackerjack, and the trip down TV memory lane priceless. --A.T. Hurley
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