Bigger Than Life (1956)

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.

• cortisone
• drug addiction
• family life
• family relationships
• father son relationship
• hallucination
• hospital
• husband wife relationship
• mental illness
• mood swing
• paranoia
• personality change
• schoolteacher
• verbal abuse