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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 1039
Released: May 10, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Your best friend's star is rising in Hollywood and there's only one thing to do: join his entourage. Meet Eric Turtle and Johnny Drama: three guys from Queens dedicated to helping their film-star buddy Vincent Chase navigate the absurdities of modern-day Hollywood--where sex parties and super-agents rule the town.Running Time: 240 min.System Requirements:Running Time 240 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 026359243127 Manufacturer No: 92431
Description of Entourage - The Complete First Season:
Entourage is everything viewers have come to expect from an HBO series: smart, hilarious, and highly addictive, especially when taken in full-season, DVD form. As implied in the title, the show follows Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), a rising Hollywood star with bedroom eyes and an over-active libido, along with his three childhood companions-turned-hangers-on. Kevin Dillon plays Johnny Drama, Vincent's less-attractive, B-list actor of a brother (he is Matt Dillon's less-attractive, B-list actor of a brother in real life). Jerry Ferrara plays Turtle, the weasel, and Kevin Connolly appears as Eric, the Everyman hero who hopes to parlay his friendship with Vincent (plus two years of community college) into a career in talent management. Along the way Eric contends with the predictable self-doubt, romantic indecision, etc. The cast is rounded out by Jeremy Piven (Doug Hughley from Singles) as a foul-mouthed agent reminiscent of Jay Mohr's short-lived Peter Dragon character. Finally, it's produced by Marky Mark himself--and you've got to believe that guy knows something about the star-entourage relationship. If possible, watch with a friend so you'll have someone to quote lines back to later. --Leah Weathersby
Entourage - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Enjoyable and funny 
2009-11-08 - This is my first Entourage viewing. I bought this set for those days when there was nothing to watch on TV. I was only expecting mild entertainment, but I end up loving it! My husband and I enjoyed the silliness of those rich and famous people in Hollywood. We were fascinated with the behind the scenes of movie making, talk show, and how the stars threw parties. The four boys were from Queens where I grew up. In fact, I can see Queens Boulevard from my parents' house where they still live. How can I not love those boys? I can even understand where Jeremy Piven's character was coming from. Great scripts, great casting, with great directing - each episode is less than 30 minutes. Very entertaining for mature viewers.
The reason why I did not give this a 5-star rating was the way the menu was set up. You have to press ENTER several times to get to each episode. Also the selection pointer blend into the background so you can barely located it. It was annoying, but I did enjoyed each show.
BUYERS BEWARE!!! This is not a film review this is a product review... 
2009-10-07 - First of all I want to make clear that this is not a film review, this is a product review.
The film (ENOTOURAGE) I love it and I have all 5 season.
What im really piss about is the fact that the first season DOSEN'T COME IN WIDESCREEN!!!!
Yes, it's just incredible. You will spend $18-$22 US on this 2 DVD's and they are not even widescreen.
Overall, the cd plays good and the previews are cool too.
But if I were you I won't spend money on this product its a waste... Downloaded it.
If this is not a concern to you, or if you just don't care then go ahead and buy, but I'm sure that some people will not like the fact that is not widescreen.
Wouldn't YOU? 
2009-09-23 - A few years ago I heard Bobcat Goldthwait's "comeback" stand-up CD (which is pretty darned funny, by the way...) Part of his routine dealt with the challenges facing middle-aging men. At one point he admits that he tries to keep himself in SOME kind of shape for romance reasons: "If it weren't for women, I'd be fatter than David Crosby!"
I bring this up because women make men do things they wouldn't ordinarily do - some good... some bad.
What if you had a group of men - four best friends from Queens ten years out of high school? What if ONE of them became a big movie star, hired the other buddies as "assistants", moved to Hollywood, and generally got every wish of every teen-aged boy?
Psychology students learn that the id is the part of the human personality that indulges every selfish desire: the characters of "Entourage" are almost all id. (The show is most interesting when the characters are able to suppress their "manliness" long enough to show the more desirable human qualities: compassion, kindness, etc.) Entourage follows the professional and love lives of four friends from New York.
The group's world swirls around Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), an up and coming 30-ish movie star from Queens. Vince is the kind of actor who is competing for roles with Jake Gyllenhaal and Leonardo DiCaprio. Vince's older brother is Johnny "Drama" Chase (Kevin Dillon). In a genius piece of casting Dillon, the not quite as accomplished and good-looking brother of Matt Dillon, plays the not as accomplished and not as good-looking brother of Vince. While Vince walks through a world where he is always the center, with beautiful women and agents and producers constantly vying for his attention, "Drama" was once the star of "Viking Quest" two decades ago, and today struggles with attempts to keep his self-esteem afloat in the shadow of his mega-star brother. Jerry Ferrara plays "Turtle", the least talented and only dumpy member of the group. Turtle knows well that he owes everything to the fame of Vince. He's happy to lead a love-life that consists of girls drawn to the aura that surrounds Vince who are not chosen by the man himself. Kevin Connolly plays Eric "E" Murphy, Vince's best friend. "E" is the character most rooted in the real world, the one most viewers would identify with. Vince trusts "E" enough to make him his manager, and one of the best continuing storylines of the show involves "E" growing from a New York Pizza manager to Hollywood power player.
Jeremy Piven plays Ari Gold, Vince's agent. Piven has won several awards as the over-the-top Ari - intense and arrogant and vulgar, but again, some of the best moments of the show come when Ari shows the slightest hint of humanity.
Entourage is a behind-the-scenes show, and succeeds in an extremely entertaining way, in the same way that "The West Wing" showed us a glimpse behind the curtain at the White House and "Bull Durham" gave us an idea of what happens in those pitcher's mound pow-wows that sports fans get to see, but never hear.
Not quite grown up - and with little incentive to do so - the boys live lives that bounce between parties and restaurants, always surrounded by beautiful women, and usually looking for Vince's next project.
What would YOU do if your best friend became the next ten million per movie star and invited you and your other buds from the old `hood to hang out in Hollywood?
This show gives us a delicious "what if".
Stands by their customer service
2009-09-22 - This company exceeded my expectations. Product recieved was not as I expected. Sent it back, recieved another IN ADDITION: offered another bonus for my patience - WOW. GREAT company.
HBO's Best Show Since "The Sopranos"
2009-08-21 - I loved the first three seasons of THE SOPRANOS. Some of the best TV ever. Then the quality fell off. I haven't tried DEAD LIKE ME or whatever that funeral home show is because every single preview shows men kissing on the mouth. Not exactly what I want to watch. I only got about ten minutes into DEADWOOD before the trash talk trashed me out. Jersey mobsters talk that way, yes. Cowboys? Don't know. But didn't want to hear it from them. I've heard good things about ROME but, like all HBO shows, I'll probably catch it on DVD if I keep hearing about it.
Then I finally got around to watching ENTOURAGE on DVD. In order. If you're not hooked immediately, give it an episode or two because it got better as it went. You get the feeling that this was a very inside job. And plenty of cameos from famous people as themselves add to the realism and the humor.
Jeremy Piven is hilarious as the no-holds-barred Hollywood shark chewing his way up the food chain. His caustic, rapid-fire dialogue is a joy to listen to.
Kevin Dillon as Johnny Drama is also very funny: the older brother who had his shot but threw it away in ways that always seem to come back to haunt him, both personally (feuds with Jimmy Kimmel & Hugh Hefner) and professionally (his hot shot brother has to get him an agent).
This is a smart, knowing show where even the little moments are winners. I loved the sad sack clown at Ari's kid's birthday party trying to give Ari his headshot and his audition reel during the party. And it's completely believable that a movie can come together and get made by people who dislike each other only because one of them knows where to score the best weed. The lust, the greed, the selfishness, the shameless self-promotion--hooray for Hollywood!
I'm really looking forward to the rest of the seasons!
