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Dawson's Creek - The Complete Fifth Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Arlene Sanford, Bethany Rooney, Bruce Seth Green, David Petrarca, David Straiton
Actors: James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 6745
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 986 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 1.1
MPN: COLD10274D
ISBN: 1404975187
UPC: 043396102743
EAN: 9781404975187
ASIN: B0007V6IW6
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1998
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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It's goodbye to Capeside, hello to Boston in Dawson's Creek's fifth season (a.k.a.: Dawson's Creek: The College Years). While the end of the fourth season sent the five friends their separate ways--Dawson (James Van Der Beek) to USC Film School, Joey (Katie Holmes) to Worthington College, Jen (Michelle Williams) and Jack (Kerr Smith) to Boston Bay College; and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) to the high seas--it doesn't take them long to find themselves together again. That's a good thing, especially when tragedy strikes a family member and threatens to tear the survivors apart. More than anything, the fifth season seems to be about falling into bad relationships. Jen dates a cute but sleazy musician (Chad Michael Murray, One Tree Hill), Pacey gets a job in a restaurant where he pursues a woman (Lourdes Benedicto) already having an affair with a married man, then fends off a vampish new boss (Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks). Joey is drawn to her handsome English professor (Ken Marino). And Jack joins a frat, becomes a jerk, and starts a devoted relationship with his beer bottle. Dawson meets an eccentric young filmmaker (Jordan Bridges) which in turn leads to a meeting with his favorite Boston film critic (Meredith Salenger). And Joey's new roommate, the annoyance-with-a-heart-of-gold Audrey (Busy Phillipps), becomes the newest major addition to the cast. The irritation factor is high this season, a couple of "Joey is threatened" interludes don't have the punch that they could have, and in the season finale, the inevitable resolution of the show's central relationship doesn't really resolve anything at all. But viewers who have followed the Capeside crew for four seasons will still want to see what happens in the fifth. The fifth season is the first to have no DVD extras at all, and it continues the music-replacement strategy (which, since the second season has replaced much of the music, and since the third season has replaced Paula Cole's theme song, all due to licensing expenses). In addition to the usual background-music switches, some scenes have been edited (for example, the episode "Highway to Hell" has cut two of the performances on-stage at the Drunk & Dead). Also, the opening credits of "The Long Goodbye" and "Downtown Crossing" had originally used instrumental versions of "I Don't Want to Wait," which had underscored the emotion of those episodes. In the DVD set, those have been replaced by the standard version and an instrumental version, respectively, of "Run Like Mad." --David Horiuchi
Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/20/2005 Run time: 986 minutes Rating: Nr
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 The Woe Is Me Season. November 15, 2008
ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE)
Dawson's Creek - The Complete Fifth Season is better than season six (the last season) but the show had already lost its luster at the end of season four. The gang have gone their separate ways but ultimately will all find their way back through the tragic death of Dawson's father. Joey is more independent as she starts College but she still finds a couple of losers to date, poor Joey. Dawson is pretty depressing this season, it's both a good and a bad thing. Pacey is the only character that totally does a 180. Ok season but season two is still my favorite.
 EXCELLENT! May 13, 2007
Osiricat (Caracas, Venezuela)
I'VE BOUGHT THE COMPLETE SERIES: 6 SEASONS AND SERIES FINALE, RECOMMENDED 4 DAWNSON'S CREEKS FANS
New setting breathes new life into the show! February 26, 2007
ChRis (New Zealand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After a average fourth season which quickly became dull after the never ending battles to win Joey's affection (Dawson and Pacey), Season 5 of Dawson's Creek was bound to be a breath of fresh air. The characters left Capeside to go to college in California and Boston, and the Joey-Dawson-Pacey problems were finally resolved. The truth is, after reading one too many reviews on how mediocre this Fifth season was, I was definitely reluctant to but it. What I found after watching the first few episodes, was that the Fifth season turned out to be my favourite season in a very long time. Dawson's Creek definitely dried out in Seasons 3 and 4, with random unnecessary character additions and the same old conflict going on and on, which eventually dragged out over the entire season. Season 5 is refreshing. The characters have definitely matured and became more fun to watch. Every character had a story going on which became interesting to watch as the season progressed. The season finale was definitely one of the highlights as you cannot wait to see what happens in the following final season. Of course with every good season, it has its downers.
There are some episodes which have "unbelievable" story lines and ones that you don't care for a whole lot, but the good outweighs the bad in this situation.
THE DVD SET:
The music used in the original airings of the show have basically all been deleted for new, possibly less exciting music. Some scenes have been deleted too (only for music rights) involving Joey and Audrey singing live on stage. The DVD picture quality is not anything spectacular, as it often appears grainy and blurry at times. But on my version of the season, they spread all 23 episodes out on to 6 discs, instead of the American version with only 4 discs, which has to be a bit better for the quality.
There are absolutely NO extras to be found on this set, which is a major disappointment because these have some very important episodes which deserve at least one audio commentary! This season is all about change after all! A little background info would be nice.
Overall, despite the disappointing extras snub, the episodes are entertaining and definitely rejuvenate the show, especially after a somewhat boring fourth season. The reason why this season is so appealing to me is because the characters are much more likable, they have a sense of humor this time around and are not afraid to try something new.
Not Worth $50 December 11, 2006
Flip (The Lone Star State)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved Dawson's Creek, but it has had one of the worst if not the worst transitions on to DVD. First of all, the trademark theme song "I Don't Wanna Wait" has been replaced. Second, most of the original music has been taken out and replace with bland songs that don't always fit. Thirdly, episode 17 is actually missing scenes because Katie Holmes sings songs that apparently they couldn't secure the rights to and episode 11 has had the song being sung by the actress switched. Fourthly, all 22 episodes are squished onto 4 disks instead of the standard 6. I wouldn't complain so much, but they were able to let the first season to make it to DVD in almost the same way it air and Buffy the Vampire Slayer managed to keep all of its original music and scenes and is separated out onto 6 disks so there isn't a loss of video quality.
 This show FELL APART in season 5. October 3, 2006
Chris Kennison (Jefferson City, Mo United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The characters were all seperated and it kept the drama and the interesting interaction and dramatic life moments spread out and minimum.
The season was less interesting than the previous, with the exception of some very major moments in Dawson's family. The relationships were less interesting. I mean, Charlie & Joey??? Give me a break.
But the main thing that bugged me was the grasping for straws storytelling and the technical disasters. The writing? First of all. Charlie asks Joey to front his band. Huh? She jumped up on stage one time in a fit of wild inhibition, and in the following episodes, she doesn't sing once. Then she's asked to front his band... she doesn't practice... she just hops up there and knows the songs and has never once worked with the band who's performing before a packed bar. Ridiculous.
Jen (Michelle Williams) bounced around like a jack rabbit for a lot of the season. She is forced to act so corny about Dawson and their relationship it was at times, horribly annoying. This girl must have an identity crisis because she's played so many different personalities in this series, it isn't even funny.
Then there's the writing. So, why is it that all of the people that Dawson, Joey, Pacey & Jen meet... talk the same way they do? With the same sarcasm and pop culture humor. These people are completely random encounters who've never talked to them before... but yet, they talk the same way??
Like, the drug dealing mugger from episode "Downtown Crossing". Joey is being held at gunpoint, but she talks to him like he's Pacey annoying her. Meanwhile, the mugger/gunmen is slinging the same, pop culture reference dialogue at her that has been such a fixture with the show. Could the writers not give him another voice? A unique voice? I thought maybe the mugger grew up with them, or was hiding in Dawson's Capeside closet when they were talking.
The same goes for Professor David Wilder. Apparently Pop culture conversation and dialogue is a class that everyone can take.
I guess the show only had one writer.
The ratings plummeted during this season, causing the following season to be the last. I didn't watch the show when it aired, I purchased the DVDs and watched them. There were many times when I felt bad for the actors in the show. Many times they were put in really silly situations and you can obviously see that they had to grin and bare it.
All in a days work. Live to act another day.
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