THE CLOSER: The Complete Fourth Season

Available to own on DVD for $59.95RRP from 3 March 2010.

Kyra Sedgwick earns fourth consecutive Golden Globe nomination for her talented performance as

Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson

Four-disc set features all 15 Episodes from the fourth season and all-new bonus features,

 including a gag reel and unaired scenes

Warner Home Video (WHV) brings the fourth season of the critically acclaimed series The Closer to DVD 3 March, 2010.  Titled The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season, the release stars the multiple award–winning and gifted actress Kyra Sedgwick as one of television’s feistiest and most provocative police women. This DVD will showcase all 15 episodes from the series’ fourth year, as well as bonus material in a four-disc collection.

Golden Globe® winner and Emmy® nominee Kyra Sedgwick portrays Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a CIA-trained detective who has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Homicide Division, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Despite her offbeat personality and tendency to step on people’s toes, Brenda’s tough-as-nails approach and track record prove her to be one of the country’s leading investigators. Brenda is tapped to lead the team because she is a world-class interrogator and when it comes to obtaining confessions, she is an expert “closer.” However, her quirky attitude and hard-nosed approach to her job sometimes rub her colleagues the wrong way, as does the fact that she is a tough-minded Southern woman in a department dominated by men. 

On the fourth season of The Closer, murderers are not the only ones giving Brenda a hard time. An ambitious newspaper reporter interferes as he tries to get a story on the Priority Homicide Division, resulting in disaster for the squad. Although Brenda and her team chalk up a string of successes (including catching a child’s killer, a drive-by shooter and an arsonist who sets L.A.’s Griffith Park ablaze), the reporter’s unflattering tell-all marks the end of the PHD.  But viewers shouldn’t ever count Brenda out. She brings her staff to the newly formed Major Crimes Division for assignments with expanded jurisdiction that extends to con artists, kidnappers, predators and, of course, killers. All of L.A.’s worst are going to meet L.A’s best.  

The series also stars J.K. Simmons (Juno), Corey Reynolds (The Guardian), Robert Gossett (Passions), G.W. Bailey (The Jeff Foxworthy Show), Tony Denison (Prison Break), Michael Paul Chan (Arrested Development), Raymond Cruz (Training Day), Gina Ravera (ER), Phillip P. Keene (Home) and Jon Tenney (The Division).

“When a series earns major award nominations and wins for each season since its inception, you know you’ve got a rare and exceptional television program on your hands. That is consistently the case with The Closer. We feel privileged to be associated with this remarkable show,” said Caroline Skillen, WHV Non-Theatrical Marketing Manager.  She added, “Kyra Sedgwick is dazzling in her role as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.  Her outstanding performance combined with the show’s powerful story lines and brilliant production is what makes this a real stand-out police drama, and we are pleased to offer it to consumers.”

Episodes:

1: Controlled Burn

Griffith Park in flames. Five people dead. A terrifying fire pits Brenda against her old nemesis, pyromaniac Bill Croelick.

2: Speed Bump

A recently paroled murderer finds life on the outside short and violent when he’s the victim of a hit-and-run.

3: Cherry Bomb

Traumatized by rape, a teenager hangs herself. A sad story, but maybe not a true one. Brenda

suspects murder.

4: Live Wire

A shooting victim is wearing an AV surveillance wire – which means the whole incident may have been recorded.

5: Dial “M” for Provenza

A wife eager to be a widow hires a cold-eyed, steel-jawed hit man: Lt. Provenza, working undercover.

6: Problem Child

A 13-year-old with a short fuse and a long rap sheet vanishes. Who’s more in danger, the boy or whomever he meets?

7: Sudden Death

When Det. Sanchez’s brother is shot down, the team scrambles to find the killer and keep their grief-stricken colleague off the case.

8: Split Ends

Brenda has two problems on her hands: her wedding-obsessed parents and a hairdresser murdered at a Hollywood studio.

9: Tijuana Brass

A critical story in the Los Angeles Times spells trouble for the PHD. So do two dead Tijuana cops and a priest with inside info.

10: Time Bomb

The Major Crimes Division tackles its first major crime, a bomb plot that threatens countless innocent people.

11: Good Faith

The medical examiner wants Brenda to investigate a suicide he thinks is murder. Clay and Willie Rae want Brenda to get married.

12: Junk in the Trunk

Big man, small space. The decomposed body of a 300-lb. suspected diamond thief is found  wedged in a car trunk.

13: Power of Attorney

Battle of the Titans: Brenda matches wits with a lawyer just as smart, manipulative and determined as she is.

14: Fate Line

Brenda’s wedding plans are complicated by a text-messaging killer. And by Fritz’s ditzy, psychic sister, who “helps” with the case.

15: Double Blind

Marriage or murder? The day before the Big Day, major cases threaten to derail the Brenda-

Fritz nuptials.

Special Features:

• To Catch a Lie – Observational Tips from an FBI Interrogator
• A Day in the Life of a Homicide Detective Series Star Corey Reynolds Rides Along with Retired LAPD Detective Mike Berchem

• Gag Reel

Approx Runtime:

620 mins

Rating:

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