Product Description

FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) recruits his mathematical genius brother Charlie (David Krumholtz) to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Assisting Don at the FBI is his partner Terry Lake (Sabrina Lloyd) and new recruit David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard).Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) is Charlie s friend and colleague who urges Charlie to focus more on his university studies than on FBI business. Don and Charlie s father Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch) is pleased to see his two sons working together but fears their competitive nature will lead to trouble.System Requirements:Running Time 544 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 097360475340 Manufacturer No: 047534

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3958 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
• Released on: 2006-05-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 544 minutes

Amazon.com
"Everything is numbers," states Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) in the pilot of Numb3rs, a satisfying (and educational!) new crime drama. Executive-produced by brothers/film directors Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Top Gun), it's like CSI with algorithms and probabilities instead of blood spatter and DNA swabs, which separates it from the slew of gruesome forensics-centered cop shows currently on the air. In this case, it's a brains-vs.-brawn matchup: a brilliant math professor (Krumholtz) consulting on crimes for an FBI agent (Rob Morrow) who happens to be his older brother. While Don, Morrow's character, busts the baddies with his team of agents, Charlie's scribbling formulas on chalkboards and statistically deducting a rapist's next target by comparing his pattern to a sprinkler system. (Yes, it sounds geekier than it is). As the show progresses, Charlie--not yet desensitized to people's fates relying on his findings--takes it harder and harder when his hypotheses don't always result in justice. It sounds very cerebral, but the cops and robbers concept plus brother-to-brother dynamics make it all go down easy. There's an unpretentious way the premise is executed, which ends up making math--get this--fun.

The DVD set features episode commentary by cast and crew, and a peek at the unaired pilot that starred many different actors (including Anna Deveare Smith and Michael Rooker) who were dropped when the episode was overhauled. Morrow, who wasn't even in the pilot, was cast later with Judd Hirsch as their father to replace the original (blonder) actors because, as producers admitted, casting Krumholtz as Charlie took the family in an "ethnically specific direction." The jokes also abound in a behind-the-scenes featurette, where Morrow defines the series as "Rain Man … plus an extra Jew." --Ellen A. Kim

From the back cover
We all use mathematics every day... but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is a world of NUMB3RS. Rob Morrow is Don Eppes, an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie (David Krumholtz) to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles--thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives. This dynamic series depicts how the convergence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions. Enjoy all 13 compelling Season One episodes of NUMB3RS in this premiere four-disc DVD collection.

Customer Reviews

Información Falsa
La infomación es falsa ya que indica que tiene el lenguaje en español y no es cierto por eso no se dejen engañar

the best
This is the most greatest new series on the tube next to CSI. How they combine FBI Investigations and everyday mathmatics is incredible. You never know how things will turn out in each episode.

Pilot was 2 Gr0ss 4 m3.
Well, based on the reviews of this series here, I gave it a try by watching the pilot episode. (Also I found out that Sabrina Lloyd, who I remember from Sliders -- one of my favorite sci-fi shows of all time --was in the show.)

Anyway, all I got was a lot of gross images of murdered women in a plot revolving around a serial killer in LA but not a pilot epiode that introduced me to the characters. (The pilot for the Heroes series is my idea of a good pilot episode.)

A good pilot episode should develop characters, and by the end of this I felt grossed out but not like I really knew any of the characters in the series. Even Sabrina Lloyd was a disappointment as it seemed that all she did was glower. I read she left after the first season, and if this is all they did with her, I could understand why.

Maybe it got better, and I can see why people like this show. The math twist is cool to be sure, but Numb3rs doesn't add up as entertaining for me.