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Michael Bluth, a widower with a thirteen year old son, is forced to keep his family together after his father is arrested for shifty accounting practices, plunging the family into financial collapse. Features the complete episodes from the first series of the U.S. comedy.

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EAN5039036019699

eBay Product ID (ePID)44104422

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ActorJason Bateman, Alia Shawkat, Will Arnett, Portia De Rossi, Michael Cera

Film/TV TitleArrested Development-Series 1-Complete

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageSwedish

Run Time529 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.78 Wide Screen\16:9 Wide Screen

Release Year2005

FormatDVD

FranchiseArrested Development

FeaturesIntroduction By Ron Howard\Commentary On Selected Episodes\Deleted And Extended Scenes\Featurette Breaking Ground Behind The Scenes Of Arrested Development\Original Song Segments\Featurette The Museum Of Television And Radio Q And A With Creator Mitchell Hurwitz And The Cast\Featurette TV Land Arrested Development The Making Of A Future Classic\Featurette TV Land Awards The Future Classic Award\Featurette Ron Howard Sneak Peak At Season 2\Easter Egg Tobias Out Take, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Comedy

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Number of Discs3

Certificate15

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationThe Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by the fortune patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) made in the tract home development business. Oldest son George Oscar Bluth II, nicknamed Gob, is an 'illusionist' of minor importance who has anger management issues, while the youngest son Buster whiles away his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) is a vain socialite who throws parties with her sexually ambiguous husband (David Cross, MR. SHOW). The only sane member of the family is Linsay's twin brother Michael (Jason Bateman), a widower who stands to inherit the reins to the family corporation when his father retires. However, at the retirement party some unexpected obstacles are thrown into the mix: Michael, having informed the family that his first task as head of the company will be to confiscate everyone's credit cards, is passed over in favour of his snobby alcoholic mother, Lucille (Jessica Walter). Just when Michael decides to wash his hands of the family and move to Arizona with his 13-year-old son George Michael, George is arrested on fraud charges and the family's assets are frozen. Michael is forced to step up and aid his family in adjusting to their new lives. Shot with a shaky camera and a documentary air that creates a feeling of intimacy with the characters, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT is reminiscent of Wes Anderson's THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS and Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Truly unique in the realm of TV sitcoms, it employs a cinematic humour that often exhibits a dark side. While targeting the filthy rich and the squeaky clean families of prime time, it also displays a certain tragedy in the characters' eccentricities and helplessness. During its two seasons on Fox Network it garnered massive critical acclaim, and was nominated for 7 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and won the TV Land 'Future Classic' award.

ReviewsHeat - Smart, funny, unique... it's the best new US sitcom for years

Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Movie/TV TitleArrested Development - Series 1 - Complete

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by freckenterprises
10 Feb, 2018
hilarious family based sitcom
Lots of engaging characters and funny development, this is the perfect show to binge watch if you're looking for laugh out loud moments.
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