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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Rescue Me - The Complete First Season
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List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $34.99
Your Save: $ 14.96 ( 30% )
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Denis Leary, Mike Lombardi, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Roth, Daniel Sunjata
Directed By: Adam Bernstein, Jace Alexander, John Fortenberry, Peter Tolan
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404976184
Format: Box set
ISBN: 1404976183
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2005-06-07
Running Time: 594
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-11-03
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Editorial Reviews:
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Tommy Gavin is a lifesaver. Whether he is pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision, Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. Gavin (Denis Leary) is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife (Andrea Roth) and three kids, and recurring memories of comrades and New Yorkers fallen victim. Leary and multiple Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Peter Tolan (The Larry Sanders Show, Murphy Brown), the team behind the critically-acclaimed cop drama The JobRescue Me.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: They can rescue me anyday!
Comment: I have throughly enjoyed this DVD set and have purchased seasons 2 and 3. It's a great ride!!
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Summary: Entertaining and Addicting =)
Comment: I bought this for one of my guy friends as a gift (he's a fire fighter) so I started watching it with him and now I'm hooked! Very entertaining.
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Summary: "THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ON FIRE"!!!!!!!
Comment: Once again "Denis Leary" is doing the damn thing.
The writing of the script is excellent along with the
acting, and the characters. KEEP IT COMING BABY!!!!!!
I can't wait to order the second season.
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Summary: Rescue me -Prepare to be haunted
Comment: I just started the 4th season, and I cant get enough of this show. Denis Leary as tommy Gavin is one of the funniest, and darkest characters I have ever seen. He is truely a human being with a blackened soul, but still surprises you constantly. the humor is outrageous and very funny. The show, and esp its music is truely haunting. The end of the finale when tommy comes back to a empty home, is one of the most heartbreaking scenes i have ever seen. The scene moved me to tears watching it, the music drowning out his actions. Very profound, I felt so bad for him, and had no idea how or where the show could go from there. Thats why its my favorite finale from any tv show besides LOST and smallvilles finales. The characters a re very vivd as well.
It always makes me think that if he were to die, would tommy go to Heaven or Hell?
Its a great show to drown yourself in. But be warned, once you let it into your head, theres no shaking it loose.
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Summary: Rescue Me is Red Hot.
Comment: Rescue Me is one of two good reasons to own a television these days. (Mad Men is the other.) Set in post-9/11 New York City, Season One of Rescue Me involves a crew of NYC firefighters working, smoking, drinking, and socializing together. The show centers on Denis Leary, who plays the role of a self-destructive firefighter named Tommy Gavin. He is a mercurial, chain-smoking anti-hero, who struggles with alcoholism and dysfunctional relationships. Although Tommy and his wife Janet (Andrea Roth) are separated, he lives across the street clinging to the hope that he can salvage his marriage, despite the fact that his estranged wife is already dating a new, white-collar guy. Despite his many flaws, Tommy is a good father who loves his three children. He lost his cousin, Jimmy Keefe, in the September 11th attacks, and is now secretly seeing Jimmy's widow, Sheila. Tommy is frequently haunted by the many victims of 9/11 he failed to save.
Rescue Me's supporting characters are equally well-drawn. For instance, Chief Jerry Reilly (Jack McGee) is the homophobic father of a gay firefighter. Firefighter Sean Garrity decides to secretly date one of his coworker's former lovers. That coworker, Franco Rivera (Daniel Sunjata), discovers he has a 5-year-old daughter with a psycho ex-girlfriend. Lt. Kenneth Shea (John Scurti) copes with his post-9/11 trauma by writing poetry. Mike Siletti (Mike Lombardi) falls for a "fat chick" named Theresa (Ashlie Atkinson). Firefighter Laura Miles is always at odds with her male coworkers, and with Tommy in particular.
It's easy to understand why this show was nominated for an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series during its first season. The show confronts dysfunctional relationships, depression, alcoholism, homophobia, and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks with honesty. Rescue Me is a must-see show.
G. Merritt
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