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Resurrection Blvd - The First Complete Season

Ruth Livier (Actor), Nicholas Gonzalez (Actor), Camilo Vila (Director), Rated:

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Format: DVD

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Genre	Drama
Format	Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Contributor	Dennis E. Leoni, Ruth Livier, Camilo Vila, John Behring, Norberto Barba, Douglas Spain, Nancy Malone, Elizabeth Pena, Glynn Turman, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Kenny Ortega, Jacqueline Piñol, Tony Plana, Daniel Zacapa, Marisol Nichols, Ray Wise, Esai Morales, Nicholas Gonzalez, Leon, Lawrence Monoson, Jeremy Kagan See more
Language	English
Number Of Discs	5

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Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. is an engrossing series about the fortunes and fate of the Santiago family, who take pride in their deep, East L.A. roots and have, for generations, pinned their hopes for success on developing a boxing champion from among their male kin. The 20 first-season episodes included here focus on patriarch Roberto Santiago (Tony Plana), confident of eldest son Carlos's chances of winning a middleweight crown until the latter (Michael DeLorenzo) is seriously wounded by an angry ex-boyfriend of his sister Victoria (Marisol Nichols). In Carlos's place steps youngest brother Alex (Nicholas Gonzalez), a bookish, affable student who takes to boxing rigorously and alienates Roberto by signing with a crooked promoter (Ray Wise).

Around the edges of the central story, other Santiagos navigate love lives, ethics, and ambitions as grand as the American Dream. Middle brother Miguel (Maricio Mendoza) disappears for a while, uncertain of his place in the family. Sister Yolanda (Ruth Livier), a dedicated paralegal with her eye on law school, discovers a serious act of negligence at her firm and isn't sure what to do. Aunt Bibi (Elizabeth Pena), lively and strong, finds her hopes crashing when she can't buy the building housing her beauty shop. Watching all this and understanding more than he lets on is Uncle Ruben (Daniel Zacapa), an ex-fighter made mute by brain damage.

The pacing of events is fairly glacial, and individual episodes could certainly be tighter. But the leisurely programs allow for lots of pleasant frills, including a cameo by Cheech Marin and a nice, recurring role for Paul Rodriguez as a business manager. Certainly the strongest element of Resurrection Blvd. is the cast, which clearly thrives on 20 hours of breathing room and really shines in the season finale's 12-round showdown. --Tom Keogh

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches; 1.1 Pounds
Director ‏ : ‎ Camilo Vila, Jeremy Kagan, Jesús Salvador Treviño, John Behring, Kenny Ortega
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 16 hours and 16 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Ruth Livier, Nicholas Gonzalez, Daniel Zacapa, Marisol Nichols, Ray Wise
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00018YCIC
Writers ‏ : ‎ Dennis E. Leoni
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 5

Best Sellers Rank: #134,487 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #23,097 in Drama DVDs

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L. Grip

From Skeptic to Converted Fan

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2009

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Never had an interest in watching the series - boxing and Latino stereotypes are not things I relate to. However, I was convinced by a friend to give it a try since as a Latina, we should be supporting programs by Latinos, that employ Latinos and that paint Latinos in a positive light. I purchased the complete season and started watching it on a Saturday; it was like a cliff-hanger or that book you just can't put down. I could hardly peel myself away from the screen. I stayed up until 1:00 AM both Saturday and Sunday. By Monday night, I had watched the entire season.

I loved the premise of the show and two characters in particular. Elizabeth Peña as Bibi is someone you root for, and fall in love with, from the first breakfast scene. Miguel is the one brother you want to hug and see succeed more than anyone else and Tony Plana as the patriarch makes you want to throw things at the screen and yell - "Stop living your life vicariously through your children." He reminds me of my mother! While I hate boxing, I can see that from the writers point of view it is the perfect metaphor for this family's struggle. I admit, I had to cover my eyes during those scenes. For all the boxing fans, it is very realistic and you will certainly enjoy the spit, blood and sweat!

Latinos and Latinas, support your Latino actors, writer, producers and directors. Buy the DVD, pass it around. How else are we ever going to see ourselves written and acted properly, if we are not telling our own story?

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D. Crawford

Excellent Series and I'm not Mexican/Latino!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 26, 2004

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This was a great show. Since I have the blockbuster movie ticket, I can rent as many movies as I like. Recently I've been renting TV shows. At first I didnt even look at renting this. I'll be truthful. I didnt believe I would like a film made up of all latinos. I didnt think I could relate to it. I was definitely wrong. I enjoyed everything about it. The acting and storyline was awesome. It wasnt just about boxing. It was about family struggles. I literally watched every episode back to back. I liked how it showed how mexicans valued their family. That's one thing I wish the white culture could do better. I've read most of the reviews and they are mostly written by mexicans. I wanted to write one so all other cultures would know this is a great show regardless of what race you are. I cant believe they cancelled this show. Maybe if they advertised the show differently, other races would have given it a chance. For example, the titles of each show was written in spanish. I couldnt even tell you what they said. Well its sad that it was cancelled though. I wanted to see the sons and the father get together again and win the world title.

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Havan_IronOak

Great series - Badly planned DVD

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2004

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I recently got this DVD and I love the series but feel that they could have done a much better job in releasing the DVD.

It seems that none of the episodes have chaptering. That's not so great when an episode is just under 60 minutes. If you end up getting interrupted (as I always seem to do) you then have to start looking from the beginning of the episode for where you left off.

There are no subtitles. This series is mostly in English but includes a lot of Spanish dialogue. Subtitles here in one or the other or both of those languages would be great. I speak English (y un pequeño espanol) but I would definately benefit from subtitles so that I can pick up the dialogue that goes by too quickly for me.

I've got no complaints with the quality of the video transfer or the sound both are crisp and well done.

8 people found this helpful

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Kindle Customer

Awesome series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2021

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After seeing a 5 minute clip on YouTube, I was so intrigued I ordered the DVD set and was blown away! It's now one of my favorite series...acting, editing, music, writing are awesome. WHY OH WHY HAVE THE OTHER SEASONS NOT BEEN RELEASED!?!?!?

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Shelley M. Perreau

Resurrection Blvd

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2008

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On reading the reviews on this show I decided to purchase this series on DVD. As I am from New Zealand it had not been shown here, and even though I am not into boxing personally, I liked that it was based on a different American culture so I brought it. I am so pleased I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it even though there were no chaptering (so I knew I had to watch the whole 60mins before I could stop it) and that there was a bits of spanish in parts that indeed needed subtitles to help me follow the script. Apart from that, it was fast moving and very dramatic. What a pity that it was cancelled! I was so looking forward to seeing what happened next.

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crcampos

DVD discs not compatible with two DVD players; Sony and RCA.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2022

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Disks may not be USA compatible. Only plays one or two episodes per disc. Tried all discs on two DVD players. A Sony DVD/BRay and a RCA DVD only player.

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Carol J Young

This is a really good series. The characters are intriguing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 24, 2017

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This is a really good series. The characters are intriguing. The only problem I have with this DVD is it will continually freeze and then start again. The DVDs look to be in good shape and aren't scratch so I'm not sure what's happening.

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Bear

Strong movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2021

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Story line very strong.....Latino family over coming heartbreak ..lifes tauts and remaing together

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