Product Description
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Hello again! Four-and-a-half years after the searing and
surprising events that marked their final days at Tree Hill High,
old friends return to their North Carolina hometown. Some of them
reached the goals they set as teens: Lucas published his novel,
Brooke rocked the fashion world as an accled couturière and
Haley became the teacher she always yearned to be. Some didn’t:
Peyton ced and burned in L.A., and Nathan saw his promise of
pro hoops glory evaporate in a single, violent moment. But once
they’re back home in this involving 5-Disc, 18-Episode Season
Five Set, everyone discovers so much is the same: love,
friendship, challenges, triumphs, laughs, tears...and dreams. As
Lucas says, it’s just the beginning.
See insert for instructions on how to download digital copies of
all episodes (must be done in one session; code can only be used
once; compatible with iTunes and Windows Media; offer expires
12/31/09).
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One Tree Hill: The Complete Fifth Season takes an unorthodox
approach to advancing the popular television series by skipping
over four years in the lives of the show's characters. The Scott
brothers and their sundry friends from the small town of Tree
Hill, North Carolina, were last seen in The Complete Fourth
Season vowing to keep in touch after high-school graduation and
remain the same people, even while some went off to college and
others made different plans. The fifth season leaps over that
transitional period, and we find everyone now in their early 20s,
dealing with adult relationships, career moves, disasters,
disappointments, and all the rest. For the first time in One Tree
Hill, the actors actually look close to the age of their
characters, and that makes for an even more sophisticated show.
Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray), following a well-received
first novel, is facing writer's block on his second effort. But
he fills his days as the new head coach of his old high-school
basketball team, the Ravens, aided by his old pal, Skills (Antwon
Tanner). Meanwhile, Lucas' brother, Nathan (James Lafferty), is
lost in a dark hole of despair after losing his dream of signing
with an NBA team. Barely able to move his legs, Nathan is almost
crippled in a bar fight and spends his days and nights boozing
and raging around while wife Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) and
young son Jamie (Jackson Brundage) try to survive his emotional
torrents. Lucas is no longer with Peyton (Hilarie Burton), the
latter having moved to Los Angeles to become a disgruntled
assistant's assistant in a music company. Brooke
(Sophia Bush), however, has hit the jackpot in New York as the
celebrity founder of a designer clothes empire that has made her
wealthy yet not quite free of her domineering mother (Daphne
Zuniga). Everyone ends up back in Tree Hill, looking for roots
and a future that involves support from one another. Friendship
matters, but it doesn't inoculate this bunch from the pain of
Peyton's ongoing love for Lucas (who is romantically involved
with his pretty editor), or Brooke's emptiness after briefly
fostering a child who then must leave her, or Nathan's slow crawl
back from misery. In true One Tree Hill fashion, the characters'
collective challenges come together in a critical mass during the
season finale, ending with a very unusual cliffhanger involving
four cell phones. --Tom Keogh