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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In its harrowing third act, Ray invests his terrifying tale of upward mobility gone horribly awry with the sinister shadows and ominous atmosphere of German Expressionist horror films.
A.V. Club
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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Playback:stl
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
Rating: 4/5 --
This is an outstanding movie, remarkable for its seriousness and daring.
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Guardian
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
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
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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