4K/Blu-ray/DVD/Digital News, Featured, Home

“The Deuce: The Complete First Season” Available For Digital Download Today

Catch up on the show that The Wall Street Journal calls “a spectacularly appealing enterprise,” when “The Deuce: The Complete First Season” is available for Digital Download today and on Blu-Ray and DVD February 13th, 2018.

Set during the early 1970s in New York City’s Times Square, “The Deuce,” starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, gives viewers an up-close look at the gritty world of sex and crime, as the porn industry begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability.

This eight-episode series, which has a 93% Certified Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes, is “Vibrant…relentlessly interesting.” (The New York Times). The DVD and Blu-Ray include exciting bonus content including exclusive audio commentaries from the cast and crew, including James Franco (Oscar® nominee for “127 Hours”), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Oscar® nominee for “Crazy Heart”), and David Simon (“The Wire,” “Treme,” “Show Me a Hero”), cast interviews on this unique period in history, and more. The Blu-ray and DVD release also include a free Digital Download copy.

Digital Download, Blu-ray™ & DVD Bonus Features Include:

  • The Deuce in Focus- Delve inside The Deuce with Michelle MacLaren, James Franco, and Roxann Dawson as they talk about bringing the show to life.
  • The Wild West: New York in the Early ’70s- Head back in time in this featurette that focuses on the frontier of the pornography business–New York City in the early 1970s–with the cast and crew of The Deuce. Creators David Simon and George Pelecanos plus James Franco and his co-stars open up about this unique period in NYC history as porn moved from the street to the mainstream screen.

Blu-ray™ & DVD Exclusive Bonus Features Include:

  • Audio Commentaries- Commentaries on Episode 1 and Episode 8 with cast and crew including David Simon (Co-Creator/Executive Producer), George Pelecanos (Co-Creator/Executive Producer), Nina Kostroff Noble (Executive Producer), Michele MacLaren (Director), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Actor/Producer) and James Franco (Actor/Executive Producer).

Boasting a fine ensemble cast and executive produced by David Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina K. Noble and James Franco, “The Deuce” chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to “clean up” Times Square. Seizing the chance to cash in on the nascent porn business are a vivid assortment of characters, including: Vincent Martino (James Franco), a bartender with vision and connections; Frankie Martino (Franco again), Vincent’s identical twin, a dangerously freewheeling counterpart to his entrepreneurial brother; Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a self-made, on-the-street sex worker eying a new career in porn filmmaking; pimps C.C. (Gary Carr) and Larry Brown (Gbenga Akinnagbe); young prostitutes Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Lori (Emily Meade); midtown cop Chris Alston (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.); newspaper reporter Sandra Washington (Natalie Paul); mob capo Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli); disillusioned college student Abby Parker (Margarita Levieva); and others.

Available on Digital HD today and on Blu-ray & DVD February 13th, 2018

 

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

James McDonald

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, James is a Movie Critic with 40 years of experience in the film industry as an Award-Winning Filmmaker. He is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.