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Bigger Stronger Faster*
Refer to the Olympic motto: 'Faster, stronger, faster', the documentary examines the use of anabolic steroid for better performance in body-building as it concentrates on a pair of siblings chasing their dreams. The film also concerns some related topics around professional athletes such as laser eye correction or the use of blood pressure reducing drugs.
1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 November 1939, Cumming, Iowa, USA
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
November 12, 1968 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
30 January 1941, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
23 September 1980, White Plains, New York, USA
13 December 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 February 1934, Mobile, Alabama, USA
28 December 1922, New York City, New York, USA
January 2, 1942 in Aurora, Illinois, USA
20 November 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
22 March 1934, Homestead Park, Pennsylvania, USA
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria
11 August 1953, Augusta, Georgia, USA
30 December 1975, Cypress, California, USA
12 October 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 July 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
5 June 1969, Dallas, Texas, USA
6 November 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 October 1963, Pomona, California, USA
6 February 1895, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
November 12, 1981 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA
December 30, 1961 in Falmouth, Jamaica
4 November 1946, Midland, Texas, USA
24 September 1964, Havana, Cuba
11 March 1975, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
July 01, 2009
It raises big, intriguing questions that rarely, if ever, come up in the hubbub about steroid use in professional athletics, particularly Major League Baseball.June 23, 2008
A lively and incisive look into the nation's growing preoccupation with pumped-up superlatives.June 09, 2008
It'll shake up your beliefs not just about steroids but about competition, hypocrisy, body obsession and American notions of masculinity.May 26, 2009
Chris Bell's very personal documentary, tracking how steroid use influenced his body building family's game, health and interpersonal relationships, is neither an apology nor a hard-lined expose about doping.August 15, 2011
Their mistakes are our entertainment.July 24, 2008
A thoughtful, informative and thoroughly entertaining examination of the role of performance-enhancing drugs in modern life.June 20, 2008
Unexpectedly funny [and] sometimes angry.December 29, 2010
A dangerous side effect of being a 'true' American.January 29, 2009
This is one of the best documentary films of 2008, along with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'June 13, 2008
By making this journey personal, a powerful vulnerability permeates the film.April 21, 2009
If steroids were outlawed, only outlaws would have steroidsJune 13, 2008
Smart, touching and enlightening, a combination that makes Bigger, Stronger, Faster the best documentary of the year so far.