Product Description
-------------------
Mary-Louise Parker is back as pot-dealing widow and single
mother-of-two Nancy Botwin for a third season of this hilariously
subversive series. Thanks to the unresolved murder of Peter, her
DEA agent boyfriend, Nancy has yet to see the light at the end of
the tunnel. And it isn't just the Feds she has to worry
about-Peter's ex-wife, Valerie (Brooke Smith of THE SILENCE OF
THE LAMBS), is also on the prowl. Of course, that is just the
beginning of the madness. Her teenage son wants to help out with
the family business, her live-in brother Andy (Justin Kirk) ships
out for Iraq, and dangerous drug dealing associate U-Turn has
Nancy by the stems. Meanwhile, on the bureaucratic side of the
Agrestic township, unscrupulous real estate developer Sullivan
Groff (Matthew Modine) is shaking things up between council
members Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) and Doug (Kevin Nealon).
Mary-Kate Olsen (THE WACKNESS) also guest stars as the new
girlfriend of older son Silas. Star Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth
Perkins, Kevin Nealon, Romany Malco, Justin Kirk, Special
Features: Multi-Disc Set Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 -
English Subtitles - English, Spanish Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries (8) - Cast and Crew Featurettes - 1. G.M.A -
Good Morning Agrestic 2. Little Boxes with Randy Newman 3. Uncle
AWOL with Justin Kirk Gag Reel Music Video - "Little Boxes"
Musical Montage Interactive Features: Trivia Track Text/Photo
Galleries: Biography - Mary-Kate Olsen - Star Additional
Products: Soundtrack Sampler Runtime: 388 minutes.
.com
----
Weeds: Season Three continues the dark line of comedy that
emerged in the previous season for this Showtime series. The
story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin
(Mary-Louise Parker) faced with a half-dozen s pointing at her
in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy's buyer,
U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash
of marijuana (worth several hundred thousand dollars). Problem
is, the pot is in the trunk of on-again, off-again friend Celia
(Elizabeth Perkins), whose car has been stolen by Nancy's oldest
son, Silas (Hunter Parrish). Silas wants in on mom's business,
but his timing couldn't be worse as Celia and a officer
show up to recl the car while Nancy is still at point. The
fallout from all this is that Nancy ends up working for U-Turn to
repay her debt to him, a dangerous relationship that sends Nancy
down a rabbit hole of underworld threats and violence. Meanwhile,
Celia gets booted out of her home by her husband and becomes
estranged from her young daughter, Isabelle (Allie Grant), who
insists she's a lesbian. Celia rebounds a bit when a corrupt
developer (Matthew Modine) gives her a house in exchange for her
support on city council for one of his schemes. That goes wrong,
too, when Celia allows Nancy, Doug (Kevin Nealon), and Conrad
(Romany Malco), all of whom go into business after U-Turn stops
being a problem, to put their endangered trove of marijuana
s in her house. Nancy's other son, Shane (Alexander Gould),
cls he can see and talk to the ghost of Nancy's late husband,
and Nancy's brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) goes AWOL from the
U.S. Army after his comrade is deliberately killed in an
experimental missile test. As always, it's one thing after
another on Weeds, and the blend of humor and suspense is uniquely
compelling. Parker and the rest of the cast pull off some pretty
surreal situations with great credibility. The show's lead star,
particularly, can carry moments of blended terror and comedy: one
of the season's most memorable moments finds Nancy forced to put
on a sexy dance for a group of drug dealers in order to pick up a
package U-Turn requires. The scene is humiliating, frightening,
sexy, and comical all at once. Few actresses could have pulled it
off, but Parker does. --Tom Keogh