Brotherhood - The Complete First Season
by Nick Gomez, Brian Kirk (III)
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Director: Brian Kirk (III), Nick GomezBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 583 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Movie Reviews of Brotherhood - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: a great show of family
Summary: 5 Stars
Brotherhood is was of the best television shows that has come out recently. I was a big fan of the Sopranos and they are not alike. Jason Clark and Anna Beth Gish are fantastic as the troubled wife and ambitious politician. Jason Isaacs however is brilliant in his part. People need to understand that they are developing his character. This is only the first season and he is working his way up the food chain. People critisize this show because Jason Isaacs part is not tough enough and should already have taken over, but give it time. This is street crime at its best. The Italian mafia is its own thing, and Soprano pretty much started out on top. Here we get to watch the lead evil brother develope. On the other had we also get to see the good politian brother show that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Although he believes he is righteous, we can see throughout the season he also is devoloping into his ouw monster. This show is outstanding and i hope the second season delivers.
Summary of Brotherhood - The Complete First Season
A working-class Irish family is torn between right and wrong when two brothers live out their destinies on opposite sides of the law. BROTHERHOOD tells the story of two brothers who sometimes share a twisted sense of moral compromise--each with his own skewed idealistic vision of what makes the American dream. System Requirements:Run Time: 583 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368507845 Manufacturer No: 850784This riveting Showtime series puts a familial spin on Angels with Dirty Faces, the 1938 James Cagney-Pat O'Brien classic in which two childhood friends take divergent paths--one becomes a priest, and the other a hoodlum. In Brotherhood, Michael Caffee (Jason Clarke) is an idealistic and respectable Rhode Island state representative dedicated to the preservation of his close-knit lower-middle-class Irish neighborhood, the Hill. His older brother, Michael (Jason Isaacs), is a gangster who returns home after a seven-year absence (one step ahead of a hit, two steps ahead of the Feds) to pick up where he left off. The stage is set for backroom skullduggery and mean streets thuggery, as both men pursue their visions of the American dream on opposite sides of the law. At the heart of this series is the conflict between the estranged brothers. With the exception of clueless matriarch MaryRose (Fionnula Flanagan), Michael is not exactly received with open arms. "You're a tornado," Tommy tells him early on. "You suck everything in and spit it out broken." Indeed, the man is a psychopath. When a henchman of neighborhood mob boss Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman) threatens a woman, Michael not only repeatedly bashes his head against a car, but for the coup de grace, cuts off his ear. In one gut-wrenching scene, he compels a woman to sell him her store by inducing her mentally challenged brother to play Russian Roulette. No wonder Tommy insists, "We're not the same in any way." But don't be too sure. Michael is a good man and devoted father and husband, but he isn't above (or beneath) using Michael's inside information to blackmail a stubborn colleague who won't vote his way on a freeway project that could destroy the Hill.
As the season unfolds, he will be forced to make more ethically challenged deals with the powers behind the scenes, one of whom has a mysterious connection with his mother. Brotherhood mines the clash between personal and professional lives to flesh out its characters. "The people's business" doesn't pay well, and Tommy is forced to moonlight as a real estate developer, and perform all home repairs. Eileen (Annabeth Gish), his picture-perfect politician's wife, smokes pot and is having an affair with a man she knew in high school. Declan Gigg (Ethan Embry) is a conflicted policeman who grew up with the Caffees. Comparisons with The Sopranos are inevitable, but Brotherhood quickly establishes its own unique voice, if not accent. --Donald Liebenson
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