The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1

The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1
by David Grossman, John Fortenberry, Ken Kwapis, Ken Whittingham, Larry Wilmore

The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1
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Actor: Bernie Mac, Camille Winbush, Dee Dee Davis, Jeremy Suarez, Kellita Smith
Director: David Grossman, John Fortenberry, Ken Kwapis, Ken Whittingham, Larry Wilmore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 506 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1

Movie Review: The Bernie Mac Show
Summary: 5 Stars

What an excellent show! Bernie Mac was brilliant. Wish there could've been more.

Summary of The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1

Taking care of kids can be tough on anyone, but watching a busy stand-up comic raise his sister's three children while she's on a "state-sponsored vacation" is enough to make you scream.with laughter! Inspired by his own life experiences, Bernie Mac's outrageous brand of comedy "turns the family sitcom on its head and sets it spinning" (The Washington Post). And now you can share Bernie's hilarious old school ideas of discipline and parenting with the complete first season of "The Bernie Mac Show" on DVD!
The Bernie Mac Show offers some of the funniest parenting on television--and some of the most honest. Stand-up comedian Bernie and his wife, Wanda (Kellita Smith), have taken in his sister's three kids--preschooler Bryana (impish Dee Dee Davis), grade-schooler Jordan (gangly Jeremy Suarez), and teenager Vanessa (deadpan Camille Winbush)--while his sister goes through rehab. Since Wanda is an executive vice-president, Bernie becomes a stay-at-home dad, putting him and the kids in a state of near-constant comic warfare.

The Bernie Mac Show uses parenting issues as a launching pad for stories that start simple but escalate out of control. In one episode, Bernie realizes that Bryana and Jordan rank Vanessa's authority higher than his; after failing to assert himself as top dog of the house, he tries to manipulate the situation and put Vanessa in charge of discipline. When Bryana overhears Bernie using the "N-word" and repeats it at school, Bernie finds his whole personality under the scrutiny of the family's social worker. Regardless of the topic, Bernie finds a way to address problems without knuckling under to sitcom clich?s. The Bernie Mac Show finds its humor not simply in these situations, but in all the details that erupt from them; every character is given multiple dimensions, allowing them to be constantly surprising. The show's skilled writing staff knows how to cram an amazing amount of story into each episode. And Bernie himself has crafted a persona that is both absurd in his bravado and self-mythologizing and deeply real in his emotional complexity, flipflopping from childish grandiosity to mature judgment. It's an impressive feat, all the more so because every episode is ingeniously funny. --Bret Fetzer

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