Homicide Life on the Street - The Complete Season 5 | 
 enlarge | Directors: Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor, Alan Taylor, Barbara Kopple, Jean De Segonzac
Actors: Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor, Andre Braugher
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 1034 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.8
MPN: AAED71315D
ISBN: 0767063953
UPC: 733961713152
EAN: 9780767063951
ASIN: B0002NY830
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1993
Release Date: September 28, 2004
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 09/28/2004 Run time: 1034 minutes Rating: Nr
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Big changes were afoot for Baltimore's finest during the fifth season of Homicide. The fourth season ended with a shocker--Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher) suffering a stroke while interrogating a suspect. In season premiere "Hostage," directed by the late Ted Demme, Pembleton is back on the job, but he's a changed man. His reflexes aren't what they used to be and his pride has taken a beating. Meanwhile, Megan Russert, who had been demoted the previous year, has moved abroad. Never fear, two strong women will join the squad in the form of detective Teri Stivers (Toni Lewis), on loan from narcotics, and medical examiner Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes, just as formidable as she was on Star Trek: The Next Generation). This is especially good news for Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond). Alas, Lewis is married and Kellerman has just been accused of police corruption. Standout episodes include "Documentary", directed by Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple, and "Prison Riot," with Charles S. Dutton and Dean Winters, a precursor to Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana's Oz. (Scott Winters, who appears in the last two episodes, would join brother Dean on that show.) But "Bad Medicine," in which drug kingpin Luther Mahoney (Erik Todd Dellums) makes his first appearance, is the most significant. With the introduction of Mahoney, Homicide would begin to deal with the drug war in earnest. Author David Simon would continue to explore the issue in his HBO series The Wire. Aside from the brilliant acting, writing, and directing, Homicide was known for its savvy song selections, such as Tom Waits's "Cold, Cold Ground" and "Till the Money Runs Out" in "Bad Medicine." In addition, the episode "The Heart of a Saturday Night", directed by Whit Stillman, was titled after--and inspired by--Waits's composition of the same name. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Love this Show!!!! November 29, 2008
B. Taylor
Its not the best of the Homicide Collection, but it has part of the rise and fall of Luther Mahoney...RIP...not. Kellerman has some good epis and Brodie does as well. Enjoy Season 5!!!
 The Best Season October 20, 2008
Ms. CM Goodwin (Cape Town, South Africa)
Season 5 is by far the most memorable season. We have the unorthodox shooting of the awesome villan Luthor Mahoney, Mike Kellerman's suicide attempt (and amazing writing dealing with being falsely accused), and Bayliss revealing that he was sexually abused as a young boy. The show is excellent with some great episodes like "Valentine's Day". There is an interesting commentry over the episode "The Documentary". My only problem with this box set is the episode menus - I don't see why the "previously on" is a choice to select and why it is after the episode selection.
Still lovin' it April 8, 2008
Olukayode Balogun (Leeds, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a firecracker this season of the Baltimore-based police drama is! Starring Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Max Perlich and Kyle Secor, it opens with a hostage situation at a Baltimore middle school and ends 22 episodes later with the investigation into a major character's murder and news of some major changes in the department in the coming year. In between, there's all manner of mayhem including a prison riot, an upsurge in drug-related murders, arson, a carjacking, a murder in a boarding school, an armed suspect who holes up in the headquarters of an African-American community group and the suspicious death of an Nigerian man who was transporting 72 heroin-filled condoms for a notorious druglord.
As always, the scenes are gritty and realistic; like its cousin, HBO's "The Wire", the show was shot on location in Baltimore. The cracking dialogue is authentic too: often it has nothing at all to do with moving the actual story forward, as is often the case in real life. There's tense action and innocent people sometimes die. But as always, for me, the most interesting aspect of this series - apart from the crime detection - is the interpersonal relationships between the various characters, especially between Detectives Pembleton and Bayliss (played by Braugher and Secor respectively).
All the familiar faces are back: Pembleton's return to duty raises a number of challenges, for him, his colleagues and even for his wife. Still recovering from the stroke he suffered last season, I think it's a huge credit to Braugher's acting skills that he's able to evoke sympathy for a character that has hitherto been so exasperating, if not just plain irritating. (But of course, that doesn't last). He attends marriage counselling with her later on in the season, which makes for very interesting viewing and Kellerman faces Federal corruption charges.
Directors this season include Ted Demme, Kevin Hooks, Kyle Secor and Clark Johnson. Guest stars include regulars like Zeljko Ivanek as Assistant State's Attorney Ed Danvers, Ami Brabson (Braugher's wife in real life) as Pembleton's wife Mary, Clayton LeBouef as the he-looks-way-too-young-to-be-a Captain Barnfarther and the achingly beautiful Granville Adams as beat officer Jeff Westby.
Introduced this season are Toni Lewis as narcotics detective Terri Stivers and raven-haired Michelle Forbes as the new Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Julianna Cox. Other big names to look out for include Edie Falco, Rosanna Arquette, Tate Donovan, Charles S. Dutton, Glenn Fitzgerald, Melvin Van Peebles, Mekhi Phifer, LaTanya Richardson, Eric Stoltz, Dean Winters, Elijah Wood and the show's executive producer, Barry Levinson (appearing as himself).
This season also sees the opening gambits of the Luther Mahoney saga with the smooth, cool & totally ruthless druglord excellently played by Erik Todd Dellums. That storyline is worth the price of the boxset all on its own and it runs into the following season.
DVD extras include audio commentary by writers James Yoshimara and Eric Overmeyer on ep. 9, film-within-a-film "The Documentary"; "Inside Homicide", an interview with David Simon and James Yoshimura; cast and crew biographies and scene selection. My only gripes with this boxset are the lack of subtitles and the absence of details regarding the music that was used in the series. They provided them on the boxset for season four so I'm a bit mystified as to why they couldn't let us have them here too.
With "The Wire" now gone, "NYPD Blue" a distant memory and the enduring "Law & Order" beginning to show its age after 18 years, it would seem that the era of gritty urban police dramas is slowly but surely coming to an end. We only have "The Shield" left.
Thank heavens for DVD boxsets.
One other thing: Considering the fact that this season was made and originally aired in 1996/97, it still looks incredibly fresh and contemporary today. Proof, if ever any were needed, that good art never gets old.
Homicide-season 5 November 28, 2007
C. Hanks (Arizona)
Homicide-Season 5 was very intertaining. Homicide was a great series and the episodes continue from the previous ones. The actors were superb and the story lines were time appropriate. Current events were often the story lines. I would recommend this DVD for anyone who likes police dramas.
Loved the series April 12, 2007
Gresham Omalley (Villanova PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Know that anytime with nothing to do or read that is the time for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets. Great cast and great stories. Almost always a good watch. Glad to have it and in a timely fashion.
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