"Attacks its final season with admirable gusto... splendid" - Variety

BOARDWALK EMPIRE®:

THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON

 Final Season Available January 13, 2015 on Blu-ray™ and DVD

Early Digital HD Release Set for December 1, 2014

New York, N.Y., December 10, 2014 - Over the course of its first four seasons, Boardwalk Empire,the hit HBO® series from Emmy Award® winner Terence Winter and Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese, garnered critical accolades for its top-rate performances, beautiful costumes and set pieces and breathtaking cinematography. Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking run, Season 5 jumps forward six full years to 1931. In stark contrast with the Roaring '20s, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers.  Find out how Nucky's story ends when Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Fifth Season comes to Blu-ray with Digital HD ($79.98) and DVD ($59.99) on January 13, 2015, featuring four audio commentaries and eight "Scouting the Boardwalk" location pieces that take fans behind-the-scenes of the final season. For diehard fans who can't wait until January, the final season will make its Digital HD debut on December 1, 2014, a few short weeks after the final episode airs on HBO.

Boardwalk Empire stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson; Kelly Macdonald as Margaret, Nucky's estranged wife; Michael Shannon as former Federal Agent Nelson Van Alden, caught up in gangland conflicts; Shea Whigham as Nucky's brother Eli, who went underground after killing a federal agent; Stephen Graham as gangster Al Capone; Vincent Piazza as gangster Lucky Luciano; Paul Sparks as gangster Mickey Doyle; Michael Kenneth Williams as Nucky's former ally Chalky White; Gretchen Mol as Gillian, now battling her demons; and Jeffrey Wright as Valentin Narcisse, Chalky's nemesis. Other returning cast members in season five include Anatol Yusef as gangster Meyer Lansky; Ben Rosenfield as Eli's son, Willie Thompson, now a young prosecutor on the rise; Patricia Arquette as Nucky's ally, Sally Wheet, now based in Cuba; and Michael Zegen as gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.

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