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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 7127
Released: June 12, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. Pursuing justice, however, sometimes means crossing the line...
Description of The Practice - Volume One:
Defense attorney Bobby Donnell could've had his pick of high-paying jobs at any number of fancy Boston law firms. Instead, he chose to be his own boss. The Practice: Volume One combines all six episodes from the debut mini season in 1997, along with seven episodes from the sophomore year. Though it would've been a more cohesive collection if entire two seasons were included on this four-disc DVD set, it's still a welcome addition for fans of this David E. Kelley drama. Starring Dylan McDermott as Bobby, the cast also includes Kelli Williams as uber-attorney Lindsay Dole, Emmy Award winner Camryn Manheim as Ellenor Frutt, and former cop-turned-defense attorney Eugene Young (Steve Harris). Then there's their friend--and also foil--prosecutor Helen Gamble (Lara Flynn Boyle), who admires the team's tenacity but stops at nothing to beat them in court. During the early seasons, Donnell's firm doesn't bring in enough money to decorate their offices, which are filthy--just like many of their clients. But as they slowly build a reputation as the go-to firm for clients who most likely are guilty but want to be set free, they begin to wrestle with moral dilemmas. As can be expected from a Kelley series, the cases presented here are fabulously sensationalist. But they also touch on human emotions, such as when they represent a client who was fired for being unattractive. The lawyers also have bittersweet moments as they realize they have surpassed their former legal mentors, some of whom have been seduced by the promise of big money. The most compelling episodes involve Dole--a brilliant but unseasoned attorney--who slowly and methodically tackles the tobacco industry. While the opponent has teams of senior attorneys, associates, paralegals, and interns at its disposal, Dole tirelessly works the case and refuses to give in, even when the outcome seems inevitable. The end result isn't believable in the least, but her passion sets the groundwork for one of the show's most watchable characters. --Jae-Ha Kim
The Practice: Volume One Extras
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The Only STUPENDOUS Show That's NOT Out On DVD 
2009-10-20 - The Practice is one of the best, thought-provoking, intelligently-written shows on TV with brilliant acting to boot! This is the show that had made me love everything legal. Given the show's excellent caliber and accolades, its successful eight-year run, the exponentially insistent demand from the devotees and the fact that it'd been 2 long years since volume 1 had been released, I'm profoundly incredulous and frustrated as to why the remaining seasons aren't yet out on DVD.
Virtually every single show is out on DVD (and some of these shows aren't as brilliant as The Practice), save for this! It's rumored that the music rights is attributable to the protracted delay but nevertheless it shouldn't take THIS L O N G! All of Boston Legal's five seasons (my other favorite show that's secondary to The Practice) are available on DVD even though it is The Practice's successor, therefore the bone of contention cannot be the music rights.
Whatever it may be, I along with a legion of die-hard fans are incredibly TIRED of waiting!! I need my court-room drama fix that only The Practice can satiate (well, that and to stare into Dylan McDermott's baby blues). PLEASE release the remaining seasons of this exceptionally magnificent and addictive show and don't make us wait till 2010 for the long-awaited volume 2 and another ten years for the rest of the seasons! The wait has been long enough.
Very upset 
2009-09-25 - When I request this series, I wanted all eight season but only received volume One. I selected seasons 1-8 on Amazon site and the Volume One appeared for $14.99. I thought I was getting a great deal since The Practice has been off air fo r some years, so i purchased this volume one hoping to receive all eight seasons, but I was fooled, and disappointed. I haven't watched this DVD as of yet and do not know if I will. I just waisted some money on something I do not want anymore.
An excellently acted television drama... 
2009-08-17 - If you'/re looking for a TV show with superb acting, interesting storylines and plot twists that will make you jump out of your seat, look no further than "The Practice".
Before it came to an inevitable end in 2004 after eight seasons, the latter of which increasing in decline, David E. Kelley's TV show about a law practice with a lot of passion and dedication who would stop at nothing for justice was one of the best shows on television. Unfortunately Season 1, which was released in 2007, is currently the only available season on DVD.
The show took place in Boston and featured the firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, later changing its name over time with the addition and removal of members.
Dylan McDermott stars as Bobby Donnell, who has so much passion and heart that you are swept up in his emotions right along with him. He cares as deeply about his associates' victories as he does for his own. He sometimes loses his temper but can be made to see the hope when it looks like there isn't any left.
Steve Young is Eugene, the former private investigator turned defense attorney who is as good at quick wit as he is with law. This is evident when, in one episode at the beginning of the series, he is walking through a jail, stops and asks the men behind bars, "how many of you here DIDN'T do it?", which is met with a chorus of protests begging to be heard.
Kelli Williams is Lindsay, the highly intelligent newbie lawyer who achieves an almost impossible victory in the beginning episodes of the show and gives you a great insight to her fierce tenacity. She has a strong need to get it right and her naivete decreases with her experience and exposure to more cases.
Camryn Manheim is Ellenor, another excellent lawyer who often times gets carried away and ends up in more trouble than she realizes. A main theme explored for Ellenor is her hopes of finding love, which she has quite terrible luck in, to say the least, as the series progresses.
Michael Badalucco is Jimmy Berluti, who helps Bobby out in a big way in the beginning of the series but gets fired for it due to a lack of ethics. So to help Jimmy right back, Bobby hires him to work with the practice, since Jimmy was a former lawyer. Unfortunately, he was never any good. He never won a case.
Lisa Gay Hamilton is Rebecca who, at the beginning of the series, is the office receptionist. She and Bobby started his practice together. She helps to center Bobby when he allows himself to fall into despair.
Lara Flynn Boyle joins the cast in Season 2 as Helen Gamble, the main prosecutor who has a brief fling with Bobby but ultimately respects his firm. However, put up against them in court, she will stop at nothing to gain her victory.
Every case is interesting. Every character is dynamic. The acting is brilliant and the surprises will keep your interest. If you loved L.A. Law, you should definitely check this out, since Kelley created that also. But if you love law shows in general, especially well-acted ones, than you should not miss "The Practice".
Great show! Where's the rest of the seasons?!
2009-08-13 - My wife and I love watching this show. I would buy all the seasons, but why have they only released the first one? Can someone tell us when we can expect the rest of the seasons to be released?
"The Practice" is super!
2009-07-30 - Please advise when or if the rest of the series will be made available on DVD. I love this series. Thank you.
