TY  - ADVS
AU  - Andrew,Geoff
AU  - Hamilton,Kipp
AU  - Hume,Cyril
AU  - Lane,Rusty
AU  - Le Maire,Charles
AU  - Lethem,Jonathan
AU  - Loeffler,Louis R.
AU  - MacDonald,Joe
AU  - Maibaum,Richard
AU  - Mason,James
AU  - Matthau,Walter
AU  - Newman,Lionel
AU  - Olsen,Christopher
AU  - Powell,Edward B.
AU  - Raksin,David
AU  - Ray,Nicholas
AU  - Ray,Susan
AU  - Reiss,Stuart
AU  - Roueché,Berton
AU  - Rush,Barbara
AU  - Scott,Walter M.
AU  - Simon,Robert
AU  - Smith,Jack Martin
AU  - Stephens,Rachel
AU  - Wheeler,Lyle
AU  - Wills,Mary
AU  - Winters,Roland
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm)
ED  - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
TI  - Bigger than life
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 1604652462
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Irvington, NY]
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - Children of drug addicts
KW  - Drama
KW  - Cortisone
KW  - Drug addiction
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Drug addicts' spouses
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - United States
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Male elementary school teachers
KW  - Drug use
KW  - Medication abuse
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Based on an article in the New Yorker by Burton Roueché; Bonus features: Audio commentary by Geoff Andrew; "Profile of Nicholas Ray" a half-hour interview with the director; Interview with Jonathan Lethem featurette; Interview with Susan Ray featurette; Theatrical trailer; Booklet. "Somewhere in suburbia" essay by B. Kite; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956; Music, David Raksin ; conducted by Lionel Newman ; art direction, Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith ; set decorations, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss ; film editor, Louis Loeffler ; executive wardrobe designer, Charles LeMaire ; costumes designed by Mary Wills ; orchestration, Edward B. Powell; James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens, Kipp Hamilton
N2  - 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
ER  -