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husband wife relationship drug addiction paranoia hallucination family relationships hospital mental illness schoolteacher cortisone verbal abuse family life father son relationship personality change mood swing
Bigger Than Life
Release Date: August 02, 1956
Year | : | 1956 |
Slogan | : | «The story of the handful of hope that became a fistful of hell!» |
Genres | : | Drama |
Production Companies | : | 20th Century Fox |
Director | : | Nicholas Ray |
Producers | : | James Mason |
Writers | : | James Mason, Richard Maibaum, Richard Maibaum, Cyril Hume, Cyril Hume, Berton Roueché |
RunTime | : | 95 mins. |
When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.
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Trailer: Bigger Than Life (1956) | The Criterion Collection Trailer
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