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** ''Film/AmericanBeauty,'' which also dealt with a middle-aged father of a family developing a midlife crisis, experimenting with drugs and alienation and angst about his role as family man.
** ''Series/BreakingBad,'' a drama about a teacher frustrated with his low-paying job and failed ambitions who becomes unstable after a fatal medical condition makes him drastically change his life.
** Creator/MartinScorsese sees this as one to Ray's previous film ''Film/RebelWithoutACause,'' another film about StepfordSuburbia which dealt with teenagers and more or less presented a caricatured portrayal of parents. ''Bigger Than Life'' portrays the same kind of environment from the view of the parents.

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** ''Film/AmericanBeauty,'' ''Film/AmericanBeauty'', which also dealt with a middle-aged father of a family developing a midlife crisis, experimenting with drugs and alienation and angst about his role as family man.
** ''Series/BreakingBad,'' ''Series/BreakingBad'', a drama about a teacher frustrated with his low-paying job and failed ambitions who becomes unstable after a fatal medical condition makes him drastically change his life.
** Creator/MartinScorsese sees this as one to Ray's previous film ''Film/RebelWithoutACause,'' ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'', another film about StepfordSuburbia which dealt with teenagers and more or less presented a caricatured portrayal of parents. ''Bigger Than Life'' portrays the same kind of environment from the view of the parents.

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** Creator/NicholasRay was greatly inspired by Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' and saw this film as a SpiritualAdaptation of the same idea of a "working-class tragedy" and the failure deriving from the hero living and stretching himself beyond his means.

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** Creator/NicholasRay was greatly inspired by Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' and saw this film as a SpiritualAdaptation of the same idea of a "working-class tragedy" and the failure deriving from the hero living and stretching himself beyond his means.means.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** ''Film/AmericanBeauty,'' which also dealt with a middle-aged father of a family developing a midlife crisis, experimenting with drugs and alienation and angst about his role as family man.
** ''Series/BreakingBad,'' a drama about a teacher frustrated with his low-paying job and failed ambitions who becomes unstable after a fatal medical condition makes him drastically change his life.
** Creator/MartinScorsese sees this as one to Ray's previous film ''Film/RebelWithoutACause,'' another film about StepfordSuburbia which dealt with teenagers and more or less presented a caricatured portrayal of parents. ''Bigger Than Life'' portrays the same kind of environment from the view of the parents.
** Creator/NicholasRay was greatly inspired by Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' and saw this film as a SpiritualAdaptation of the same idea of a "working-class tragedy" and the failure deriving from the hero living and stretching himself beyond his means.

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