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Giant (1956)

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Reviews Counted: 36

Fresh: 35

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.7/10

Runtime: 5 hrs 12 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor

Starring: Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, Chill Wills, Sal Mineo, Jane Withers, Dennis Hopper, Rod Taylor, Judith Evelyn, Earl Holliman, Alexander Scourby, Paul Fix

Director: George Stevens

Director: George Stevens
Screenwriter: Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Producer: George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

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May 31, 2005

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Like the title says.

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An excellent film which registers strongly on all levels, whether it's in its breathtaking panoramic shots of the dusty Texas plains; the personal, dramatic impact of the story itself, or the resounding message it has to impart.

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11/13/07
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Its deeper themes and superb performances from Taylor, Hudson and Dean make it a classic Hollywood epic.

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11/13/07
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Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.

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11/13/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.

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05/11/07
Cole Smithey
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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.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Modern critics consider Giant to be a bloated, sprawling, and pretentious saga, but by the era's standards, it exposed idelogical cracks in the American dream, such as the myth of melting pot and women's anxiety over their allotted place in society.

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12/13/05
Emanuel Levy
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10/07/05
Forrest Hartman
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09/21/05
Michael Szymanski
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06/15/05
Emanuel Levy
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For a reason I cannot fathom, Giant still has a reputation as a fine film, and it will no doubt go on boring audiences forever and a day.

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05/23/05
Dan Callahan
Slant Magazine
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An uneven, but satisfying variation on the traditional western.

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08/24/04
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
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Old-fashioned life-of-a-family pic that's like nothing you'll see today -- and I mean that in the best way possible.

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05/27/04
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
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04/06/04
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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03/22/04
Frank Swietek
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Overrated, overlong, and marred by some of the worst old age make-up ever seen.

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02/12/04
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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A decent sprawling family epic. Surprised somebody hasn't remade it for television.

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09/29/03
Widgett Walls
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Essential viewing

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08/22/03
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly
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remains an entertaining film for many of its small moments

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06/27/03
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews
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A real movie is big, grand, magnificent and regales you with all the power that movies can wield upon a viewer's imagination and spirit. George Stevens' 1956 production, Giant, is a real movie.

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06/14/03
Douglas Pratt
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