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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.
5 June 1969, Dallas, Texas, USA
22 March 1934, Homestead Park, Pennsylvania, USA
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
11 March 1975, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
6 November 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
3 April 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 12, 1981 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA
30 July 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2 July 1964, Havana, Cuba
August 15, 2011
Their mistakes are our entertainment.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 20, 2008
Unexpectedly funny [and] sometimes angry.April 21, 2009
If steroids were outlawed, only outlaws would have steroidsJune 13, 2008
By making this journey personal, a powerful vulnerability permeates the film.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.June 13, 2008
Smart, touching and enlightening, a combination that makes Bigger, Stronger, Faster the best documentary of the year so far.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.'July 24, 2008
A thoughtful, informative and thoroughly entertaining examination of the role of performance-enhancing drugs in modern life.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.