Beefcake
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  • Summary: This film looks at the life of photographer Bob Mizer during the 1950's and the phenomenon of men's muscle magazines, primarily being purchased by the still underground homosexual community.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    75
    Tries to have it both ways -- as a kitschy ode to bodybuilding culture and as a tragic story of a man who was persecuted for his dreams.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    60
    An illuminating and engrossing look at the life and times of pioneer Los Angeles physique photographer Bob Mizer
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Vince Aletti
    60
    Beefcake's messiness has real charm, and its tribute to Mizer is both appropriately complicated and poignantly sexy.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    A campy docu-drama about the secretly gay world of 1950's muscle magazines.
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