Rating: TVMA
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 10/17/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 720 min
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video
Meet the Henricksons. They're the typical suburban American family, occupied with hectic schedules and bills to pay, as well as trying to make sense of an increasingly complicated world. Oh, and they also happen to be polygamists. In the first season of this unconventional, critically acclaimed drama, every day is a new adventure for patriarch
Bill Henrickson (
Bill Paxton), who lives outside Salt Lake City with his three wives --
Barb (
Jeanne Tripplehorn),
Nicki (
Chloë Sevigny) and
Margene (
Ginnifer Goodwin) -- and their collective brood of seven children, including Bill and Barb's teenagers,
Ben (
Douglas Smith) and
Sarah (
Amanda Seyfried). Owner of a profitable home-improvement superstore, Bill is anxious to expand his empire (and support his growing family) by opening another Home Plus location with his business partner and fellow polygamist,
Don Embry (
Joel McKinnon Miller). However, an unwanted investor hoping to share in Bill's good fortune emerges:
Roman Grant (
Harry Dean Stanton), the scheming "Prophet" of the remote Juniper Creek polygamist compound who is also Nicki's father. There's been bad blood between Bill and Roman ever since the former was expelled from Juniper Creek as an adolescent, largely by the latter's hand. Bill also clashes with
Adaleen (
Mary Kay Place), one of Roman's wives, and their power-hungry son and chief enforcer,
Alby (
Matt Ross). But Bill is not alone in this feud, as his father
Frank (
Bruce Dern), mother
Lois (
Grace Zabriskie) and brother
Joey (
Shawn Doyle) still live at Juniper Creek and identify, to varying degrees of familial allegiance, with Bill's enmity for Roman. On the home front, third wife Margene risks exposing the Henricksons' illicit lifestyle by befriending a Mormon neighbor; Nicki tries to hide a shopping addiction and the tens of thousands of dollars of credit-card debt that goes with it; and Barb tiptoes into the spotlight after one of her kids nominates her for Utah's Mother of the Year award.
~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide
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