Top cast:James Stewart,Kim Novak,Barbara Bel Geddes
Director:Joss Whedon
Genre:Western
Region:United States
Year:2002
Storyline:]The film, with a production cost of more than $2 million (about four times more than an average live-action picture), initially failed at the box-office (partially due to the expensive installation of "Fantasound" sound reproduction equipment in theatres), but then its popularity increased and its cult status was assured when the members of the 60""s drug culture adopted it as a favorite hallucinatory experience when it was re-released (alongside other counter-cultural, head-tripping favorites, including2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),Easy Rider (1969), and the re-releasedAlice in Wonderland (1951)in 1974).Szell has come to New York City to retrieve the fortune in diamonds from a safe deposit box.Szell kidnaps Doc""s brother, lone, idealistic Jewish graduate student Babe Levy (38 year old Dustin Hoffman as a mid-20s grad student), who knows nothing about his brother""s involvement.The Girl is introduced at the dock, a winsome street waif with a "bruised little body." She is hunched over, presumably from all the beatings she has received for every imaginable infraction dreamed up by her father.P.Kinsella book, in which he starred as farmer Ray Kinsella who felt compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his Iowa cornfield.Giantwas one of the first Hollywood epics to cast younger actors and age them hroughout the course of the film.