Product Description
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Same town. Same team. Same her. Different lives.
Half-brothers rival each other on and off the basketball court in
the wildly popular high-school drama that tallied a whopping 185%
audience growth among W18-34 from it series premiere to the first
season finale.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:Over 48 minutes of Unaired Scenes with
introductions
Audio Commentary:Commentary by the cast and crew on The Pilot
(Disc 1), To Wish Impossible Things (Disc 5), The Games That Play
Us (Disc 6)
Documentaries:Building a Winning Team: The Making of One Tree
Hill - a never-before-seen making-of documentary with interviews
with the cast and crew. Diaries From The Set - A
behind-the-scenes vignette with the cast of One Tree Hill.
Gag Reel:Christmas Elf Gag
Music Video:Oh, Chariot musical performance by Gavin DeGraw
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One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season marks the beginning of
a genuinely engrossing series that maintains, for a long while,
an unusual focus on a single, powerful conflict defining the
destinies of two characters. Adolescent half-brothers Lucas (Chad
Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott have lived
parallel lives in One Tree, North Carolina. They share a common
her, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), who has disregarded the
existence of Lucas, his son by a one-time flame, Karen (Moira
Kelly), whom he dumped years before to accept a basketball
scholarship to college. While neglecting Lucas, Dan--whose hoop
dreams never materialized--has spent his time almost perversely
micro-managing every one of Nathan's moves on and off the court
at his old high school, where the lad is currently an arrogant
superstar under gruff-but-wise coach Whitey Durham (Barry
Corbin). Nathan (whose mother is separated from Dan) is a child
of privilege and has been raised to disregard teamwork,
compromise, or the feelings of others. He regards Lucas, a
basketball sensation on neighborhood playgrounds, as t, and
his own girlfriend, Peyton (Hilarie Burton), as a pretty bauble
he can abuse and dismiss at will. Still, he's sympathetic; one
can see glimpses of the human being struggling to emerge from
under Dan's control.
Meanwhile, Lucas helps Karen run her café, hangs out with
platonic best friend Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), and pines for
Peyton (herself a punky misfit at heart). He also turns to
surrogate dad Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer)--actually his uncle and
Dan's older brother--for support, and sees himself as a perpetual
and doomed outsider in One Tree. All that changes when Whitey
invites Lucas to join the b-ball team that Nathan dominates, a
move that challenges the status quo of multiple relationships in
a small community. For about a third of its episodes, this series
from creator Mark Schwahn (who wrote the hit film Coach Carter)
stays true to the suspense surrounding Lucas's and Nathan's
changes in fortune. Then a bit of padding follows to the end of
the season; there are 22 episodes to fill out, after all. But
even as various distractions (a kipping subplot, a car
accident and coma for a major character) and random events creep
in (Dan, rather incredibly, takes over the team from Whitey at
one point, thus coaching both his sons), One Tree Hill remains
highly watchable. The writing is shaped well and , while
performances are consistently excellent. (It's especially good to
see Sheffer, perhaps best known for A River Runs Through It,
again.) --Tom Keogh