Without a Trace: The Complete First Season
by Charles Correll, David Nutter, Deran Sarafian, John McNaughton, Kevin Hooks
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Actor: Anthony LaPaglia, Enrique Murciano, Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Poppy MontgomeryDirector: Charles Correll, David Nutter, Deran Sarafian, John McNaughton, Kevin Hooks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 922 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 33703
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Without a Trace: The Complete First Season
Movie Review: ~* Every Second Counts when someone Vanishes *~
Summary: 5 Stars
To any one reading this review, who has never seen an episode, I invite you to a story and review that I am sure will lure you into buying this set !! Just kidding but it's worth a read if your unsure if this is the show for you !!
My husband gave me "Without a Trace" First Season as a Christmas present. All I can say is thank you Santa !! We watched the entire First Season in rapid succession. It was VERY compelling.
"WITHOUT A TRACE" is a riveting procedural drama about the New York Missing Persons Squad of the FBI. The sole responsibility of this special task force is to find missing persons.
They use all kinds of cool tequniques including:
psychological profiling. This techniques peels back the layers of the victims' lives in order to trace their whereabouts.
They try to discover whether the person was abducted, murdered, committed suicide or simply ran away.
The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance.
They dig into every facet of the victim's life, following one simple rule: learn WHO the victim is in order to learn WHERE the victim is.
Senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) is tough but compassionate. He is a seasoned and astute professional who heads up the team! His acting is flawless. Lapaglia is my favorite leading male character in a drama!
His sqad is comprised of equally talented actors, whose diverse backgrounds and work strategies lend to the shows originality.
The team includes:
Samantha Spade, an agent whose blonde good looks belie a tough, complex approach to her work.
Vivian Johnson , a no-nonsense investigator with a special insight into victims' families.
Danny Taylor, whose sensitivity is often covered up by his street smarts.
Martin Fitzgerald, who joined the team as a result of his father's connections but has since earned his stripes.
As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their own lives continue to unfold.
In closing, although the theme of the each show sounds narrow "FBI searching for missing people" I promise you each show brings new plot ideas & character growth all of which NEVER feels repetitive.
Summary of Without a Trace: The Complete First Season
WITHOUT A TRACE is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) heads the dedicated team. His squad includes Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), and Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close)DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:Director's Cut of the Finale episode - Fallout - includes additional scenes not shown during the broadcast.
Audio Commentary:Commentary on the pilot episode
Deleted Scenes:Approximately 26 minutes of deleted scenes shown after each relevant episode.
Featurette:The Motive featurette, Jerry Bruckheimer's inspiration for the show; Fingerprints featurette, focuses on the look and feel of the show.
It has not taken long for Without a Trace to emerge from the shadows of CSI and become a ratings force in its own right. Jerry Bruckheimer produced both series, and both feature the-face-is-familiar character actors with extensive and diverse resumes who have been catapulted to primetime stardom. Jack Malone, head of a crack FBI missing persons unit, is the Australian-born Anthony LaPaglia's breakout role after years of portraying enough Italian mobsters and criminals to populate a season of The Sopranos. LaPaglia was a surprise Golden Globe Award-winner for this inaugural season. Without a Trace is instantly arresting. "The clock is ticking" in each episode, as Malone and company race against time to find a missing person. "After 48 hours," Malone explains to the rookie member of the team in the series pilot, "they're gone." To solve each baffling case, Malone and fellow agents Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste of Secrets and Lies), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), and new guy Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), must work from the inside out. "Once we find out who she is," Malone says of one victim, "odds are we'll find out where she is."
Among the inaugural season's most wrenching episodes are "Between the Cracks" and "Hang On to Me," both featuring Charles Dutton in his Emmy Award-winning performance as a father whose son has been missing for five years. The powerful season finale, "Fallout," presented in this four-disc set in a "creator's cut," concerns a man who lost his wife in the 9/11 attacks. The riveting episodes mostly stand alone, but some cases do return to haunt Malone, as witness "In Extremis," a case that ends tragically and leads to an internal investigation that threatens to subvert the close-knit unit in the episode. "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Sharp writing, authentic procedurals, taut direction, and effective use of music make Without a Trace a series worth finding on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
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