Eli Stone
| Eli Stone | |
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| Genre |
Musical Legal Comedy-drama |
| Created by |
Greg Berlanti Marc Guggenheim |
| Written by | Greg Berlanti Marc Guggenheim |
| Directed by |
David Petrarca Vincent Misiano Michael Schultz |
| Starring |
Jonny Lee Miller Victor Garber Natasha Henstridge Loretta Devine Sam Jaeger Laura Benanti James Saito Matt Letscher Julie Gonzalo Jason Winston George |
| Composer(s) | Blake Neely |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Greg Berlanti Marc Guggenheim Ken Olin |
| Producer(s) | Carl Ogawa Jeniffer Lence Leila Gerstein Chris Cheramie Andrew Kreisberg Andy Ackerman |
| Location(s) | San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Cinematography | Michael O'Shea |
| Editor(s) | Ted Desrosiers Elena Maganini |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Berlanti Television ABC Studios |
| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | January 31, 2008 – July 11, 2009 |
Eli Stone is an American legal comedy-drama TV series, named for its title character. The series was created by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, who also served as executive producers alongside Ken Olin who directed the pilot, with Melissa Berman producing. The series originally aired on ABC from January 31, 2008 to July 11, 2009, for two seasons.
The series follows Stone (Jonny Lee Miller), a San Francisco lawyer who begins to have hallucinations (such as a George Michael soundtrack that only he can hear and getting dive-bombed by a WWI biplane on a busy San Francisco street) which leads him to two possible conclusions: a potentially fatal brain aneurysm, and the chance that something greater is at work. His visions lead him to accept cases with little monetary gain but a lot of moral goodness; Stone also predicts an earthquake that hits San Francisco. Other such events occur throughout the course of the series, but the series was cancelled before reaching a coherent conclusion.
The series has been met with generally favorable reviews from critics, and each season has been released on DVD.
Greg Berlanti, who co-wrote the show with Marc Guggenheim, described Eli Stone in Variety as "a Field of Dreams-type drama set in a law firm where a thirty-something attorney, whose name is the title of the show, begins having larger-than-life visions that compel him to do out-of-the-ordinary things". Eli suffers from an inoperable brain aneurysm that causes him to have realistic hallucinations often relating to the plot of the episode to the extent that he may be considered a modern-day prophet.
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