The 4400: Season 01
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The 4400 [TV Series]
Over the course of 50 years, fourty-four hundred people seemingly vanish under mysterious circumstances -- and just as mysteriously re-emerge one day, all at once. Not only have all these people returned not looking a day older than when they left, many have developed remarkable physical and psychic powers while they were gone. So what happened, and what does it mean for those who have to live with the returned? ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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The 4400: Season 01
The first season of USA Network's sci-fi thriller The 4400 begins (pardon the cliché) with a bang, as a huge, glowing object falls from the sky and lands near Highland Beach, Washington. The comet-like object then disgorges some 4400 human beings, all of whom had vanished from the earth over the past 58 years! After a brief quarantine, the "4400" leave for various parts of the world--and then several returns, exhibiting such paranormal abilities as telekinesis, mind control, supersensitve hearing, and even, in the case of Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger), the power to revive the dead. Another of the 4400, Lily Moore, is pregnant with the child of Richard Tyler (Mahershalahashbaz Ali) Acutely aware that the returnees' otherworldly powers can be used for evil as well as good, Dennis Ryland (Peter Coyote), head of the National Threat Assessment Command division of Homeland Security, dispatches agents Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie) to locate the rest of the 4400 to make certain that nothing terrible happens. Unfortunately, the damage has already been done, as witness the serial killer who has the power to make others do his dirty work. Also, whatever has caused the 4400 to develop these skills also has a profound effect on the two NTAC agents--to say nothing of Tom's son Kyle (Chad Faust), whose erratic behavior turns is a harbinger of things to come. Meanwhile, another of the 4400, the mysterious Jordan Collier (Bill Campbell), offers protection and shelter to his fellow retunees at Arcadia Estates--an outward act of altrusim that may be a cover up for a sinister hidden agenda. The five-episode first season ends after several of the 4400 are assassinated once their identities are made public--and after the startling secret behind the 4400 is revealed (we won't give too much away here: suffice to say that, though the 4400 were definitely abduction victims, their abductors were NOT aliens from another planet!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Includes Episodes:
The 4400: Pilot
The 4400: The New & Improved Carl Morrissey
The 4400: Becoming
The 4400: Trial By Fire
The 4400: White Light
Cast
Peter Coyote as Dennis Ryland
Joel Gretsch as Tom Baldwin
Jacqueline McKenzie as Diana Skouris
Patrick Flueger as Shawn Farrell
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Richard Tyler
Laura Allen as Lily Moore
Kaj-Erik Eriksen as Danny Farell
Chad Faust as Kyle Baldwin
Brooke Nevin as Nikki Hudson
| Crew
Scott Peters - Executive Producer
Rene Echevarria - Executive Producer
Francis Ford Coppola - Executive Producer
Rene Echevarria - Show Creator
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The 4400: Season 01
(not reviewed)
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Best Miniseries (nominated)
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General Specifications: | | Language Options: | English | | Subtitle Options: | | | Sound Processing: | DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
DS: Dolby Surround (4.0)
| | Additional Features: | none specified | | MPAA Rating: | NR | | DVD Discs Included: | 2 | | DVD Sides: | 2 | | DVD DVD Region Code: | 1 | | Content Length: | 256 min | | | |
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