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CRACKER: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

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Actors: Robbie Coltrane
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 10
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Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Release Date: March 10, 2009
Run Time: 1350 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
ASIN: B001JXPC4Q
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,648 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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I Have Always Loved This Series

By Stephanie De Pue VINE VOICE on March 17, 2009

Format: DVD

"Cracker: The Complete Collection," is our first opportunity to acquire all eleven of the riveting mysteries in the highly-praised British television series of crime dramas. It comes as a deluxe set of ten disks that includes all three series of the long-running British mystery (1993-95), two standalone TV movies, and a 45-minute behind-the-scenes retrospective documentary. It runs approximately 22 ½ hours all told, and also includes, thank goodness, and thank you Acorn Media Group, subtitles for each episode: it would, otherwise, be rather difficult for us on this side of the pond to make out the Manchester accent, as that handsome, ethnically diverse northern English city is where the series was largely filmed, and the actors encouraged to utilize its hard-on-the-ears accent. The series has shown here on the A & E network, and on BBC America: it was made by Granada for broadcast over the independent TV stations (ITV) in the United Kingdom.

Jimmy McGovern (The Street), a hugely talented writer who has traveled far on, and from, his Celtic working class Liverpool origins, created the series and wrote several of the strongest episodes. The series stars the very large Scottish Robbie Coltrane, who took his stage name in homage to the American jazzman John Coltrane; he was better-known at that time as a comic actor (Nuns on the Run, I believe, is where I first saw him, playing with Eric Idle).Read more ›

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A worthy addition to mystery and crime drama DVD collections

By Midwest Book Review on March 14, 2009

Format: DVD

Winner of more than 25 major awards, including BAFTAs for best drama series and best actor, Cracker: The Complete Collection is a DVD set of the enthralling British crime drama about Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist with an uncanny ability to divine the motivations of psychopaths. At the same time, Fitz is driven by his own self-destructive compulsions - scotch, sex, and gambling, and his personal arrogance makes him barely tolerable to his co-workers. A 45-minute bonus special feature "Cracker: Behind the Scenes" enhances this dark saga of the nightmare side of urban life. Cracker: The Complete Collection is a worthy addition to mystery and crime drama DVD collections. 10 DVDs, approximately 22 1/2 hours plus bonus, full screen and widescreen, subtitles.

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In a drama, darkly..!

By RIJU GANGULY on July 31, 2011

Format: DVD

Let me clarify certain things at the very outset:

1) This is NOT a POLICE PROCEDURAL, neither is it a series involving the events & emotions that someone in the line of fire has to go through in the process of nabbing the bad guys and helping the good guys.
2) This is NOT a series where one sees the protagonist evolve into someone better; the protagonist here (Dr. Fitzerald, a brilliant but pathologically unlovable psychologist) remains the same nasty, caustic, egoistic, self-centered, gambling, hurting genius who can see through the criminal minds, but can not feel the torture that his nearest & beloved are going through.

Now that I have managed to write that stuff out (a "catharsis"?), I can write what this series are:

1. The stories (esp. the first couple, and a few in the middle, except "Best Boys") are gripping.
2. Relationship between Fitz and Penhaligon (a beautiful Police Officer) and Fitz & his wife, and the literally cracking tension that is felt in the scenes involving them would put any soap-opera to shame any day, and yet would remain dark & grim, since there is usually a murder or rape at the backdrop of this drama.
3. Some of the subject matters, like the gradual descent of an old-styled copper into someone truly bad simply because he had failed to prevent something that he could have done, the social tension, impacts of war & terrorism devastating the matrix of human mind, are visceral and very-very grim, making viewing of this series an uncomfortable, yet compulsory task.

Thus, I rest the case. If you appreciate a good drama with top-notch acting from all, watch this series.Read more ›

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Crime drama at it's most real and dramatic ...

By Timothy Green on May 31, 2009

Format: DVD

Being old enough to enjoy the series the first time round, couldnt help but purchase all of what is on DVD on Cracker after watching the first series again ... What it brought to me was the quality of how some producers, actors etc. are able to bring realism to the set and maintain amazing characters at the same ... Coltrane has his own qualities, and is obviously an actor very rarely rivalled on TV drama, and has this asset of dragging the audience into the character he plays, and despite being this large, common, drinking and smoking machine, only seeks sympathy from the watcher, and certainly gets it ... Another nice thing about the whole series, is that although maybe shocking in the first couple of series, the quality of themes, acting etc. never fails and for this type of drama surely will always be hard to top such an act ... Hopefully in the future Mr Coltrane will seek to return to give us one or two more feature films to enjoy! ... Oh, just a comment on the above, supposedly watched by our American brothers and sisters, the accent is also hard to follow in certain hollows in the UK too ... TimCracker: The Complete Collection

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Superb Series! Excellent scripts and acting/actors!

One of the best of many excellent series from England.

Published 4 months ago by Andrew T Franczek Jr

Great First Season

I absolutely loved the first season. It was so original having a dysfunctional psychologist (Robbie Coltrane) aid the police in the solution to the local murders in his... Read more

Published 6 months ago by Jf

Well worth watching

Robbie Coltrane a sex symbol? Yes indeed! I was torn between wondering why his wife didn't finally kick his drinkin', gamblin', chain-smokin', arrogant, and sarcastic self to the... Read more

Published 8 months ago by R K Williams

Five Stars

robbie coltrane is so good. wish there was more

Published 9 months ago by ted rose

Expected more. Script was crude, probably will give ...

Expected more. Script was crude, probably will give it one more try to an episode, but my taste doesn't run such mean-spirited negativity. Read more

Published 9 months ago by R. Taylor

Charactyer annoying and plots bad

Awful. Did not even finish watching the set, Charactyer annoying and plots bad

Published 9 months ago by Barb B

One of best PBS mystery movies. Great affordable collection.

Excellent , as I expected. Remembered them as they were aired. Glad to have them as a set.

Published 9 months ago by WmMc

"Cracker still Quacks....."

Although written and produced years past, the social/cultural issues explored by an iconoclastic/tormented Robbie Coltrane (racism, police professionalism, sexual discrimination,... Read more

Published 10 months ago by louis l.

Watching Robbie Coltrane is like a master class

If you're old enough to remember this show, no more need be said. Watching Robbie Coltrane is like a master class. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Stephen L. Broker

Disappointed

Very dark and depressing

Published 12 months ago by BHG

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