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- 1956
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 3 h 21 m
- 1956
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 3 h 21 m
Summary The film version of Edna Ferber's big Texas novel, a sprawling epic of contemporary cattle barons and nouveau riche oil tycoons.
Directed By: George Stevens
Written By: Edna Ferber, Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
- 1956
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 3 h 21 m
- 1956
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 3 h 21 m
Giant
7.5
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Summary The film version of Edna Ferber's big Texas novel, a sprawling epic of contemporary cattle barons and nouveau riche oil tycoons.
Directed By: George Stevens
Written By: Edna Ferber, Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
13 Reviews
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13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
84
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The movie remains a classic for the themes it represents, both on screen and off. [25 June 2005]
Key to Giant‘s enduring appeal is the meshing of outsize stars with Ferber’s characters: Closeted sex symbol Hudson’s towering Bick fills the big boots of his ranching family while struggling with the demands of traditional masculine authority. The taboo-breaking Taylor is the seductive, whip-smart Leslie, an assured reformer who views the injustices visited upon the ranch’s Mexican workers with maternal concern...And then there’s Dean’s most mannered, complex performance: Jett is at once transparent and enigmatic, hardening with age while the other characters mature. The actor’s death — a year before release — adds a keen poignancy to the character’s lost potential.
I found myself -- all twitchy intellectualism aside -- liking it enormously. There's more to Stevens's exteriors than those great shots of the looming ranch house. He had learned John Ford's trick of keeping the horizon low in the frame, and there are literally dozens of long, wide shots that are more than merely awesome. They suggest an emptiness that stumbling, ill-educated, materialistic people will somehow fill with something -- oil derricks, bragging Texas talk, reactionary politics. [Reprinted in the NY Times: 25 May 2003, p.21]
It is also, for the most part, 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.
Sitting through it is like cramming a decade’s worth of daily television-watching into a single sitting.
The pace is so plodding, and the general effect so stultifyingly unsubtle, that one is left impressed only by the fine landscape photography and Dean's surprisingly convincing portrayal of a middle-aged man.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
13 Ratings
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18% Mixed
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Photoplay Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
