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""Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the 'miracle' cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings"--IMDb web site."
""Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the 'miracle' cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings"--IMDb web site."@en
""Ed, père de famille et professeur, apprend qu'il a une maladie orpheline très grave et mortelle. Pour avoir une chance de survivre, il doit prendre un nouveau médicament, la cortisone. Or ce médicament n'a pas encore été expérimenté étant donné la rareté de la maladie. Ed accepte tout de même le traitement. Il reprend donc le cours de sa vie et prend bien son médicament, mais il lui arrive souvent de forcer un peu la dose. Au bout de quelque temps, certains changements s'opèrent sur lui. Il devient plus agressif envers son entourage, il tient des propos incohérents auxquels jamais il n'aurait pensé auparavant. Un jour, il veut tuer sa femme et son fils ..." --Site wikipédia, consulté le 28 octobre 2014."
"Bigger than life is one of the greatest American films of the 50's and a highpoint in the careers both of lead actor James Mason, who also served as producer, and of director Nicholas Ray."@en
""Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) 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. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking, and wildly entertaining"--Container."
"Ed Avery is a happily married schoolteacher who agrees to take a new 'miracle drug' when diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. It is not long before the drug begins producing malevolent and murderous side-effects that bring to the fore all of Ed's repressed frustrations with his life."@en
"A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem."
"A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem."@en
"The life of a suburban schoolteacher is saved by the new miracle drug Cortisone, but he suffers dangerous delusions of grandeur when he overmedicates himself."@en
"A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity."
"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. "This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking -- and wildly entertaining."--Jacket"@en
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"A schoolteacher takes cortisone to arrest the effects of a possibly terminal disease. Its effects on his behaviour threaten his family. This is a family melodrama not a case study. Ray's strong architectural sense is acutely evident in his use of scope (here less evident in the non-scope print) to suggest entrapment: the horizontal emphasis of the scope frame is played against the verticals of stairways, etc. Thematically, the positive aspects of middle class family life are pitted against problems - the constricting limitations of milieu and values amplified (not imposed) by the effects of the drug."@en