Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #624 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-14
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 346 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Entourage's fifth season leaves our movie star in a pickle: his big Oscar shot, Medellin, is a dismal failure, and Vincent (Adrian Grenier) has burrowed away to Mexico to drown his sorrows in booze and women. How does a once-promising actor get his confidence, legitimacy, and bankability back? That's the key premise this time around, and like some of its previous seasons, is always more interesting when Vince is struggling than when he's on top. Once his crew--manager Eric (Kevin Connolly), big brother Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), agent Ari (Jeremy Piven), and driver Turtle (Jerry Ferrara)--convince Vince to get back in the game, he finds many once-welcoming doors closed. He eagerly takes a meeting with Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont (playing himself), only to feel insulted when he finds it's for a TV pilot. (His subsequent options? Appearing at a Sweet Sixteen party and doing a Benji movie.) Once a promising script about firefighters (called Smokejumpers) piques Vince's interest, ensuing episodes become a complex chess game of job-hopping, backdoor-dealing, and back-scratching, which is always Entourage's strength. As Vince watches his star fade, Grenier gets a chance to let his sunny optimism crack, even sitting in Ari's office and begging to be told he's a good actor.

The celebrity guest stars are plentiful and more integral this season. Jason Patric--playing himself--lampoons his difficult on-set reputation brilliantly as Vince's co-star in Smokejumpers. (The onetime Speed 2 star brags about being offered the lead in Aquaman 2, but turned it down: "Sequels, water: they're not for me.") Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting) plays a famous German director who clashes with Vince; Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) cameos as a new love interest for Turtle; Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) reprises her Season One role as an aspiring singer, and Eric Roberts plays himself (who happens to deal 'shrooms on the side) in a wacky episode involving the guys' drug-fueled night of reflection at Joshua Tree. Even Mark Wahlberg, the show's producer and inspiration, plays himself in a golf scene with former agent Ari (priceless line: "What about when you told me you liked The Truth About Charlie?"). The only unwelcome cameo is in "Seth Green Day," in which the actor turns up for no other reason than to re-surface his war with Eric and annoy everyone to death. --Ellen A. Kim

DVD Description
HBO presents Entourage, the hit comedy series executive produced by Mark Wahlberg that takes a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot young actor in modern-day Hollywood, and his entourage.

For Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating ride. In Season Five, can the guys put the Medellin fiasco behind them and orchestrate a career comeback for Vince?

Synopsis
So that he'll never forget where he's from, actor-on-the-rise Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier) enlists the company and support of his childhood pals from Queens, New York, to join him on his path towards stardom. More than happy to oblige, Eric (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), and Chase's older brother Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) eagerly move into Chase's L.A. mansion, where they enjoy endless parties in the company of beautiful women. With Hollywood as their playground, it doesn't take long for the entourage to discover that celebrity life is not all fun and games, especially as they contend with the high-pressure tactics of Vince's hilariously cutthroat agent, Ari (Jeremy Piven), and no-nonsense publicist, Shauna (Debi Mazar). This collection presents the complete fifth series.

Customer Reviews

Feeling sorry for Vince? Almost.
Downloaded this series from iTunes and will get the boxset when it comes out.
Despite it being quite a short series (writers strike?) a classic series, think the character of Vince actually develops, he is struggling for the 1st time and for the 1st time in the series so far you actually feel for him.

Drama's career is going from strength to strengh, Turtle has a celb gf, The Murphy Group has doubled it's clientel, whilst Vince is struggling to get any kind of roll!

Ari is still the best character a classic episode involving his arch enemy Adam Davis - which is probably my favourite Entourage episode.

Some great cameos from celbs - Seth Green returns to haunt E.

Certainly my favourite comedy on TV and looking forward to Season 6 launching on iTunes in September!

Hollywood Nights
Ari, E, Drama, Turtle are back!! Oh yeah, and that other guy too..what's his name? Vince.

Entourage 5 is the same mix of boys' fantasy and witty one liners. The shows revolve around Ari and E, with Drama and Turtle playing the clowns. It really is about the entourage and not the 'star'. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, not Hamlet.

Some characters return - Dom and Seth Green in a couple of really good episodes. Turtle scores with a celebrity! Ari is the king of Hollywood still - good acting, great lines (but do they have to be so homophobic? Would the script writers put the same type of scabrous lines in Ari's mouth about a black assistant as they do about Lloyd? No because that type of bigotry rightly wouldn't be acceptable. Why is this type?)

If you liked 1 to 4, this is just as addictive. Like coke (the drink), enjoyable, but somehow you know it's not good for you.

The ultimate humorous revelation
It may have all gone awry: Pretty boy becomes the darling of Hollywood, loyal friends bask in the success. All too easy. Yet, "Entourage" succeeds beyond belief in rendering a portrayal of Hollywood: In other words, it maintains a delicate balance between what's real and what isn't. At the same time, through superb casting it tells common folks of tales of riches and tales of rags; of bonding that may be frayed at the edges but holds together through the glue of childhood friendships. Throughout Entourage's five seasons characters grow and delight. Granted, having established themselves in a certain mold, Season 5 characters appear somewhat exaggerated as if suddenly the show has turned into a Comedia del'Arte performance but such are the fortunes of popularity. Whatever it is the characters exude they manage to pass it on to their viewers.