Bigger Than Life (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
The story of the handful of hope that became a fistful of hell!
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Blu-ray 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
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
Rating: 8/10 --
...an amazing critique of conventional 1950s morality...
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Playback:stl
It's hard to think of another Hollywood picture with more to say about the sheer awfulness of 'normal' American family life during the 50s.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
This is an outstanding movie, remarkable for its seriousness and daring.
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Guardian
Rating: A --
A masterful melodrama whose aesthetic beauty works in service of a stinging social critique.
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Lessons of Darkness
Mason's gift for cold-eyed madness is heightened by Ray's exuberantly lurid approach.
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New Yorker
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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