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• Actors: Noah Wyle, Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer, Goran Visnjic, Sherry Stringfield
• Directors: Arthur Albert, Brett Fallis, Christopher Chulack, Ernest R. Dickerson, Gloria Muzio
• Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Run Time: 1023 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001JAHQ0W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,229 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "ER: The Complete Eleventh Season" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

An aquarium worker with a live shark latched onto him…a blind woman and her guide companion (a miniature horse!)…a college boy with an arrow in his gut (his fraternity brothers were aiming for the apple on his head). Gunshot victims. Homeless children. Cardiac cases. So many patients, so little time. Year 11 of the fast-paced series brings challenges and changes to the ER. Corday and Chen weigh work and family. Abby finds that being a good doctor is as tough as being a good nurse. Ray Barnett – doctor by day, rock star by night – arrives. Carter decides to leave. He’s been there from the start, a student turned leader who picked up where Greene left off. He set the tone, provided the example. His impact will endure.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The ER welcomes the "Rock Doc" and emmy winner Ray Liotta!, March 20, 2009

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Nathan B. Blake (Kirkland, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ER: The Complete Eleventh Season (DVD)

Finally, Warner Bros. seems to have sped up their release of ER seasons on DVD!

Season 11 includes Ray Liotta's emmy winning tour de force in "Time of Death", a real time episode following the final 43 minutes of his character's life. Alex Kingston, Ming Na and Noah Wyle exit County General. Other guest stars include Red Buttons, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon, Francis Fisher and Sharif Atkins.

Season 11 of ER includes some of the series' most memorable patient storylines. New doc Ray Barnett (Shane West) juggles medicine and music,
Sam and Luka continue their turbulent relationship, and Corday is punished for performing an illegal operation. There is much to like about season 11, so why only four stars?

While season 11 is very good, certain episodes leave something to be desired. Having Sharif Atkins return as Dr. Gallant was a good idea, but
actually having an episode take place in Iraq made the show wander too far from County General. I liked the Gallant-Neela-Iraq storyline, but
if I wanted to watched Baghdad ER, I would. Also, Carter unfortunately ends up with Kem. Some people like her, others don't. I think she's O.K., but nothing more. And the so-called cliffhanger with Sam's son at the end of the season didn't have me on the edge of my seat, and only led to a dull season 12 premiere.

Now that I got all that outta the way, I can say that the rest of the stories, performances and medical cases are top notch ER. I'm looking forward to July 14th!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best season of ER, but still has some good moments, July 27, 2009

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Amanda (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ER: The Complete Eleventh Season (DVD)

Set in the Emergency Room at Chicago's County General Hospital, ER is a gritty, heart-pounding glimpse of how brisk decisions can save lives -and how one mistake can prove fatal. The show launched George Clooney's career and featured a stellar cast that included Julianna Margulies, Laura Innes, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, and others throughout the series' run. The combination of absorbing plot lines, compelling characters, top-notch performances, and realistic depictions of life in the ER attracted millions of fans each week. The eleventh season features more pulse-pounding medical incidents as well as significant lineup changes: long-time regular, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle), decides to leave County General, and a new doctor, Ray Barnett (Shane West), enters it.

Season eleven opens with Pratt (Mekhi Phifer), Chen (Ming-Na), and Elgin (James Earl) being rescued after barely escaping a crash into the Chicago river (well...except for Elgin); two new interns, most notably, Dr. Ray Barnett (West), entering County General; and the once-nurse Abby beginning her career as a doctor. Much like past seasons, each episode features a collection of primarily episodic plot lines that revolve around each of the show's main characters.

Sadly, many of the episodes don't seem to have the kind of power and passion behind them that previous ones did, but, by far, "Time of Death" is the standout episode for the season. Unlike the traditional ER pattern, it consists of just one plot line with no side stories that takes place in real-time, chronicling the final 43 minutes of Charlie Metcalf's (Ray Liotta) life. Liotta plays an alcoholic on death's door who attempts to make amends with his son. His performance, which won a well-deserved Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, makes this episode come alive, sticking with viewers long after it's finished.

Other guest stars this season include Red Buttons, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon, Francis Fisher, Sharif Atkins, and others.

The rest of the cast does a phenomenal job with the material they are given. However, the biggest loss of the season is the end of Wyle's tenure as Dr. Carter. He will certainly be missed in future seasons of ER (even though he does make the occasional guest appearance).

The special features for season eleven follow the same trend as most of the previous seasons' boxed set - except this time there's no gag reel, only a collection of deleted scenes or "Outpatient Outtakes." Each tends to be really short and seems to add very little to the show overall, while this explains why the scenes were cut, it makes one wonder why they were even included at all other than to give hard-core fans the complete experience of the show. The episodes that feature deleted scenes are "One of the Road," "Damaged," "Try Carter," "Fear," "White Guy, Dark Hair," "A Shot in the Dark," "Skin," "Only Connect," "The Providers," "Middlemen," "Alone in the Crowd," "Here & There," "Back in the World," "Ruby Redux," and "You are Here."

From a technical aspect, ER has always looks great on DVD. Utilizing widescreen from the beginning, this show was originally transferred to DVD with an "open matte." As HDTV became more prevalent, the series switched to a widescreen presentation in both standard definition airings and HD reairings. This DVD set uses the 1.78:1 widescreen presentation, which allows for a very impressive TV-to-DVD transfer.

The audio for this release is a bit lacking at a 2.0 Dolby Digital English track. It is fine for the moments of dialogue during the show, but the loud, pulse-pounding, frantic emergency room scenes that the show is famous for don't quite pack enough audio punch. It just doesn't pull the viewer in as much as it should. Also included are English, French, Chinese and Portuguese subtitles.

Die-hard fans of the show will snatch this one up, but others may have trouble. While season eleven still features the same heart-pounding medical drama that ER is known for, many of the episodes leave something to be desired and just don't have as engaging plot lines as previous seasons. Long-time fans of the show may overlook this, but for casual fans or viewers who may not be familiar with the ER world, this just isn't the season to get started with.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, April 2, 2009

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This review is from: ER: The Complete Eleventh Season (DVD)

I have been waiting for this season to be released for so long! Dr. Ray Barnett is up there with some of the great in ER history as one of the most memorable characters. I would describe him as a young Doug Ross almost. I have waited so long for the Dr. Ray seasons to be released and am so glad that they seem to be releasing the seasons a LOT faster now. There for a while they were getting released as entirely too slow of a pace.