Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Carina Cochano gives "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" a critics' award:

Christopher Bell's documentary about the win-at-all-costs culture of bodybuilders and the steroid subculture is a fascinating, unexpectedly profound and melancholy mediation on what we have become as a country and the misguided obsessions that made us this way.

Synopsis Bigger, Stronger, Faster
From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new film that unflinchingly explores our win-at-all-cost culture through the lens of a personal journey. Blending comedy and pathos, Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a collision of pop culture, animated sequences and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats. At its heart, this is the story of director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, who grew up idolizing muscular giants like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who went on to become members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream. When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes?

Opened May 30, 2008 Runtime:1 hr. 45 min.
PG-13thematic material involving drugs, language, some sexual content and violent imagesollow your heroes?
Director: Christopher Bell
Genres: Biography, Culture & Society, Social Issues

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