Bigger Than Life (Criterion Collection)
The story of the handful of hope that became a fistful of hell!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 23, 2010
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | James Mason, Barbara Rush & Walter Matthau | |
| Performer: | Christopher Olsen | |
| Directed by | Nicholas Ray |
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Rating: 5/5 --
A superbly shot critique of the suffocating conformity, repression and materialism at the heart of middle-class life.
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BBC.com
The epitome of a social problem film, in which the "crisis of conformism" bursts open in every single tension-producing frame.
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East Bay Express
Rating: 2/5 --
Those who remember the creeping terror and eeriness of Mr. Roueché's real-life yarn will be sorry to learn that there is little terror or eeriness in the film.
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New York Times
Although James Mason's acting in the central role is impressive, this is an overdrawn and insufficiently explained medical melodrama about a man who takes too much of a wonder drug and tries to butcher his own family.
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Maclean's Magazine
James Mason has picked a powerful subject for his first 20th-Fox production and delivers it with quite a bit of dramatic distinction in carrying out the supervisory duties and as the male lead.
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Variety
Mason's gift for cold-eyed madness is heightened by Ray's exuberantly lurid approach.
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New Yorker
Rating: 8/10 --
...an amazing critique of conventional 1950s morality...
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Product Description:
Unable to pay the bills as a school teacher, Ed Avery (James Mason) has a double life as a taxi dispatcher. He hides this second job from his family, as well as a far graver secret: he's suffering from a painful illness that may claim his life. In a last-ditch effort at survival, Ed begins a regimen of cortisone injections that turn him into a crazed drug addict, tearing his cookie-cutter world apart. Nicholas Ray (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) directs this trenchant drama about 1950s suburbia; James Mason has rarely been better--or more intense.
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- UPC: 715515054812
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