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Drama's second season has deleted scenes from show as extras on disc
By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Sunday, Jun 14, 2009
Since it is one of the questions that comes up often, Everwood has finally gotten its second season on DVD, close to five years after the first season was released and three years after the series ended.
At one point, it appeared the second and subsequent seasons would not be released at all. TVshowsondvd.com reported in 2006 the first season did not sell well enough to justify Warner Home Video's releasing a second. But with time, and persistent fan lobbying, minds were apparently changed, and so we get Everwood: The Complete Second Season (Warner, 22 episodes, six discs, $39.98).
Not that they were changed to the degree that the set was lavishly made. The only extras are deleted scenes, although Warner says there are close to 40 minutes of those.
Still, you have the series itself, a solid drama starring Treat Williams as widowed doctor Andy Brown, but giving considerable air time to the other members of the show's large ensemble. If you're a fan of Brothers & Sisters and somehow missed Everwood, you may want to go back to the earlier show, since they overlap in cast and writers.
Also on TV, Tom Selleck has had good roles in his career, most famously that of Thomas Magnum. But the best thing he has done may well be the Jesse Stone movies for CBS.
Laconic, hard-drinking, with an undercurrent of anger and a disdain for authority, Stone first appeared in a series of novels by Robert B. Parker. The novels have been adapted for five television movies so far and the fifth, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, arrives on DVD on Tuesday (Sony, $24.96).
The DVD made me put on my grumpy hat because it is utterly lacking in extras. But the movie itself is worth watching.
Stone, a former Los Angeles police detective now working as the police chief of the small Massachusetts town of Paradise, is under fire from a town councilman who finds Stone uncooperative. In addition, a woman whose son was kidnapped years ago has shown up in Paradise, convinced her son is alive and somewhere in town. And, just to make life a really tasty slice for Stone, he has been shot when someone was trying to kill a friend of his.
With help from a strong cast including Kathy Baker and William Devane, as well as a tightly told story, Thin Ice moves powerfully to an ending with considerable impact on the characters and viewers. It's also a bit of a cliffhanger. But I hope for still more Stone movies.
Tyler Perry is maddeningly prolific — maddeningly because, if he did fewer things, what he does might be better. But he certainly keeps DVD shelves full, and he adds to his pile on Tuesday with both Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (Lionsgate, $29.95) and Tyler Perry's House of Payne: Volume Four (Lionsgate, 20 episodes, three discs, $29.98).
Madea, which was in theaters in February, was Perry's biggest big-screen hit to date, taking in more than $90 million. The DVD adds six pieces about the characters and the making of the movie; it is available in widescreen and full-frame. House of Payne also has extras, including a blooper reel.
I have long been a fan of Dominick Dunne, the writer of successful novels and the chronicler of big-time crimes. And I was impressed by Dominick Dunne: After the Party (IndiePix, $24.95), a documentary looking at Dunne's life, his work in Hollywood and as a writer, his achievements and several mistakes along the way.
The film, by Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley, follows Dunne as he is covering one of Phil Spector's trials for murder. With that framework, it presents interviews with Dunne, as well as comments from friends, family and a foe or two. The DVD adds an interview with the filmmakers.
Father's Day is not far off, and you may be pondering a gift. Depending on what your father is like (or what you want your offspring to get you), Tuesday's potential offerings include The Three Stooges: Volume Six: 1949-51 (Sony, 24 shorts, two discs, $24.95), although the previous five sets are also worth a look. There are also ''deluxe editions'' of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Part V: A New Beginning and Part VI: Jason Lives (each from Paramount, $16.99) as well as Blu-ray releases of Friday the 13th Part 2 and Part 3 3-D ($29.99 apiece).
Or, with the new Transformers movie coming, someone might like to revisit his youth with The Transformers: The Complete First Season 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory, 16 episodes, three discs, $29.99).
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com and on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
Since it is one of the questions that comes up often, Everwood has finally gotten its second season on DVD, close to five years after the first season was released and three years after the series ended.
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