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- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
Summary A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend.
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: John Steinbeck, Paul Osborn
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
East of Eden
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7.7
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Summary A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend.
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: John Steinbeck, Paul Osborn
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
72
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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A powerful film whose influence can be seen in Hud and most other antihero films, East of Eden is masterfully directed by Kazan. All the principals give riveting performances, but it was Dean who emerged as an overnight sensation. Eden also features a quintessentially hardbitten performance from Van Fleet, who won an Oscar for her pains.
Powerfully somber dramatics have been captured from the pages of John Steinbeck's East of ed en and put on film by Elia Kazan. It is a tour de force for the director's penchant for hard-hitting forays with life.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
7.7
87% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
7.7
87% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
7% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
7% Negative
1 Rating
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Never in the history of movies was a film so absolutely enraptured by its subject than East of Eden is with Dean. The camera desperately records his every twist and turn of emotion as if preserving it were of the utmost importance.
Dean’s style of method acting and sheer charisma jumps off the screen (along with artful cinematography).
Even viewers who acknowledge Kazan’s lack of visual imagination usually concede that nobody got better performances out of actors, but this last vestige of his reputation is in real need of examination.
As long-winded and bloated with biblical allegory as the original. That said, it's a film of great performances, atmospheric photography, and a sure sense of period and place (the California farmlands at the time of World War I).
In short, there is energy and intensity but little clarity and emotion in this film. It is like a great, green iceberg: mammoth and imposing but very cold.
Production Company
Warner Bros.
Release Date Apr 10, 1955
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline Of what a girl did . . . what a boy did ... of ecstasy and revenge!
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Nominations
