Stars: James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes

Director: Rodman Flender

Summary: The story of four teenagers as they struggle through adolescence. Features the episodes: 'The Scare', 'Beauty Contest', 'The Kiss' and 'His Leading Lady'.

Dawson's Creek centres on the trials and tribulations of a close-knit group of high school friends as they come of age in the small coastal town of Capeside, Massachusetts. Relive the romantic entanglements of Dawson (James Van Der Beek), Joey (Katie Holmes), Jen (Michelle Williams), and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) with this collection of four of the best episodes from the first two seasons. Includes "The Scare," "Beauty Contest," "The Kiss," and "His Leading Lady."

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It's goodbye to Capeside, hello to Boston in Dawson's Creek'sfifth 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 Wilmington 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), 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, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.77 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Animated Menus, Filmographies, Isolated Score, Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1998
Release Date:	September 4, 2000
Runtime:	167 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 844
Keywords:	Creek, General, Tv, Drama, Dawson's
Genre:	Drama