- Spiritual Successor:
- American Beauty, 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.
- Breaking Bad, 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.
- Martin Scorsese sees this as one to Ray's previous film Rebel Without a Cause, another film about Stepford Suburbia 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.
- Nicholas Ray was greatly inspired by Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and saw this film as a Spiritual Adaptation 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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