Giant (Blu-ray) G

The legendary epic that's as big as Texas.
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Format:  Blu-ray  (3 Discs)
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Blu-ray Details

  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Rated: G
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 21 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: November 5, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1956
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1956 - Best Director: George Stevens

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh95%

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Total Count: 41

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 24,235
Rating: 3/4 -- This ambitious adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel is often touched by greatness, yet it's ultimately too scattershot to satisfactorily maintain its bloated 200-minute running time. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Nov 7, 2013
Rating: 4/4 -- Like the title says. Full Review
TV Guide
Nov 14, 2007
Rating: 3/5 -- The combination of director George Stevens and source novelist Edna Ferber, both given to expressions of overblown high seriousness, yields a long, slow, achingly self-important movie. Full Review
Total Film
Apr 14, 2014
Sweeping saga of American prosperity that reveals its racist underbelly; glorious star vehicle that upends rigid gender roles; modern western that questions the validity of frontier land ownership. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 28, 2016
Stevens' sprawling epic of Texan life, taken from Edna Ferber's novel, strives so hard for Serious Statements that it ends up as a long yawn. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
...[With] genuinely striking images of galloping horses, gushing oil, and drunken brawls in the liquor cellar...
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 13, 2003
...[A] well-acted all-American epic...
Total Film
Aug 1, 2003

Product Description:

Edna Ferber's best-selling family saga was the source of Stevens' sprawling epic, which stars Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean, in his last film appearance. When Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Hudson) goes to Virginia in the early 1920s to buy a prize stallion, he falls in love with Leslie Lynnton (Taylor), an aristocratic, independent-minded beauty, and they quickly marry. He takes her back to Reata, his 600,000-acre ranch, where sister Luz (Mercedes McCambridge), the family matriarch, does her best to make Leslie feel unwelcome. Leslie is appalled by the second-class status accorded to women and racist attitudes toward the local Mexicans, neither of which seem to bother her husband. Out of compassion, she befriends surly ranch hand Jett Rink (James Dean), who comes to worship her from afar, envying Bick for both his wealth and his wife. He strikes oil on land bequeathed to him by the deceased Luz and his wealth and power grow apace. As the years pass, the bewildered Bick often finds his children thwarting his wishes and criticizing his beliefs, pushing the millionaire to question his values for the first time in his life. The film's outstanding cast, which also features Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker, Earl Holliman, and Chill Wills, inject vitality into a project that occasionally suffers from longueurs.

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