Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
They call it Giant because everything in this picture is big, from the generous running time (more than 200 minutes) to the sprawling ranch location (a horizon-to-horizon plain with a lonely, m...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 10, 2003
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May 18, 2009Really long and occasionally brilliant, this production lives up to it's name in the scale of the story alone. James Dean's best overall performance.
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February 20, 2009"giant" is james dean's final screen presence, perhaps the leastly empathetic one. it's an overlong "masterpiece" of george stevens who brings the dynamic trio of taylor, hudson and dean together to delineate a epic of texas. excessively ambitious, but the plots're teetering afte...( read more)
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December 27, 2008I enjoyed this movie immensely! Although I liked Deans goofy character, Taylor and Hudson made the biggest impression on me.
I don't want to bother you with what the movie is about, but what I can say that it's more than a story about the life of a family, it also covers some ve...( read more) -
September 28, 2008Lengthy ode to the oil industry among other things. Family dysfunction for example, things that coulda been, etc. It's tragic, and vast, and classic.
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September 26, 2007The cast are great, especially James Dean and Mercedes McCambridge but I always find it hard going getting to the end of this!
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November 15, 2009Three and a half hours of James Dean as the broody, rebellion "stable boy" who he plays so well, what a treat (although his appearances are scarce throughout, but I take what I can get). Taylor is awesome as well as the tough lady who holds her own between Texan chauvinists. Get ...( read more)
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November 15, 2009giant was an inspired title.
this is a wonderful movie. a tad long for some, but as for me it could have gone on for decades and be the next dallas :))
a brilliant casting (james dean is phenomenal, btw) and a wonderful setting.
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October 24, 2009Although it may not have the graceful structure of a masterpiece like Gone with the Wind, I consider Giant to be a great film in its own right. The scope of the picture is enormous, and although it isn't always ideally handled, the strength of the material radiates through its fl...( read more)
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October 13, 2009When I borrowed this movie, it did not say "Side A" it only said "widescreen" so I thought that the other side would be full screen. I ended up watching the entire movie from middle to end (and it was looooong!) I didn't realize that I missed the whole first half until the movie ...( read more)
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October 10, 2009James Dean is in and out of the screen.The respective leads flash in an instant and if the terrific direction won't shun you,family epics aren't your thing.Stevens reaches pinnacle and as the sparkling tension of American civilized attention processes,we can always diminish those...( read more)
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December 22, 2006Such an underrated pleasure. See this film, see it now. In many respects I consider this to be better than the fabled 'Casablanca'.
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