Extras - The Complete First Season
List Price:
Our Price: $24.99
You Save: $4.99 (17%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $7.83 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Ashley Jensen, Ricky Gervais, Stephen MerchantDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Extras - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Grows on You
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful little series and a touching one too. Ricky Gervais plays an actor and writer who finds work as an extra. The parts are extremely small and usually never have a speaking part. He has a useless agent who seems as lost as he is and his friend Maggie is even more completely hopeless, she lives in a hovel without much money and usually is treated worse when working as an extra. The jokes are subtle and don't overwhelm the pathos of the character's lives. The more you watch it, the more poignant the episodes become. A nice piece of work, short and sweet.
Summary of Extras - The Complete First Season
After the British series of The Office came to an end, co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were faced with an enviable problem: After making the most influential and acclaimed sitcom of the past decade, what do you do next? Amazingly, they've actually created an equally brilliant show: Extras, in which Gervais plays Andy Millman, an frustrated actor who can only get work as a "background artist"--i.e., an extra. Not only does the role continue to mine Gervais' gift for self-humiliation (which, staggeringly enough, may be even more excruciating than his David Brent's behavior in The Office, because Andy is more socially capable yet still can't avoid moments of jaw-dropping embarrassment), but Gervais has also persuaded a glorious variety of stars to tweak their own images. High points include Kate Winslet (Sense & Sensibility) teaching Andy's best friend Maggie (Ashley Jensen, Ugly Betty) how to talk dirty and Patrick Stewart (X-Men) describing his new screenplay about a man who uses psychic powers to remove women's clothing. But Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson, Ross Kemp (sort of the British version of Michael Chiklis), and Les Dennis (sort of the British version of...well, there may not be an American version of Les Dennis) all also turn in deliciously ego-bursting turns. Merchant plays Andy's deliriously dense agent, but the core of the show is the relationship between Andy and Maggie. Over the course of six episodes, the interplay between this hapless, starry-eyed pair grows into a wonderfully tender portrait of friendship that perfectly balances the show's so-funny-it-hurts humor. The extras are few but worth watching: Along with a behind-the-scenes featurette, genuinely funny deleted scenes, and the usual clips of everyone forgetting their lines and swearing, there's a very funny sequence of Gervais and Merchant desperately trying to replace Jude Law (who had to drop out of an episode) with Leonardo DiCaprio. All in all, Extras: The Complete First Season is essential viewing. --Bret FetzerMeet Andy Millman, Actor. Never forgets his lines because he never gets any. Andy (Ricky Gervais) is a desperate man. He's been an actor for five years but thanks to his useless agent (Stephen Merchant), he?s never done any real acting. Instead, he?s a lowly film extra, making his mark in the background while the stars do their work. His partner in arms is the pitiable Maggie, a fellow extra and a hopeless romantic. Andy may be an extra, but he?s a star in his own right. Too bad nobody else agrees.
DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes:Never-before-seen deleted scenes featuring Kate Winslet, Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Stewart. Over 20 minutes of exclusive outtakes.
Other:"The Difficult Second Album" behind-the-scenes featurette. "Finding Leo" -- Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant?s desperate attempt to secure a guest appearance by one of Hollywood?s top celebrity?s.
Deleted Scenes
Featurette:The Difficult Second Album- Behind the scenes of EXTRAS Finding Leo- featurette
Outtakes
Comedy DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in If television does melt your brain...these shows are worth it.
Wonderfalls - The Complete SeriesRelease date: 2005-02-01; DVD
Best price: $19.50
Price in other shops:
Torchwood - The Complete First SeasonWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-01-22; DVD
Best price: $54.89
Price in other shops:
![Spaced: The Complete First Series [Region 2 Import - UK] Image](/images/Spaced-The-Complete-First-Series-Region-2-Import-UK-B000KDZSD6-X.jpg)
Spaced: The Complete First Series [Region 2 Import - UK]DVD
Best price: $23.99
Sex and the City - The Complete First SeasonWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-05-23; DVD
Best price: $12.49
Price in other shops:
Scrubs - The Complete First SeasonRelease date: 2005-05-17; DVD
Best price: $18.50
Price in other shops:
Pushing Daisies - The Complete First SeasonRelease date: 2008-09-16; DVD
Best price: $18.99
Price in other shops:
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton MegasetA&E; Release date: 2005-09-27; DVD
Best price: $46.95
Price in other shops:
Gilmore Girls - The Complete First SeasonWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-05-04; DVD
Best price: $18.99
Price in other shops:
Firefly - The Complete SeriesRelease date: 2003-12-09; DVD
Best price: $19.89
Price in other shops:
Extras - The Complete First SeasonRelease date: 2007-01-09; DVD
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
I'm Alan Partridge - Series 1Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $23.45
Price in other shops:
The Office - The Complete Second Series (BBC Edtion)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-04-20; DVD
Best price: $12.75
Price in other shops:
Extras - The Complete Series (Includes Series Finale)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-01-15; DVD
Best price: $28.50
Price in other shops:
The Larry Sanders Show - The Complete First SeasonSony; Release date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $21.50
Price in other shops:
The Office SpecialWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-11-16; DVD
Best price: $15.95
Price in other shops:
Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders ShowRelease date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $29.99
Price in other shops:
Ricky Gervais Presents: The World of Karl Pilkingtonby Karl Pilkington
Hyperion; Published: 2006-10-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.30
Price in other shops:
The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-11-16; DVD
Best price: $43.62
Price in other shops:
Extras - The Extra Special Series FinaleWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-02-26; DVD
Best price: $11.96
Price in other shops:
Extras - The Complete Second SeasonWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-07-10; DVD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops: