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  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary The inspirational story of iconic brothers Joe and Ben Weider, who are the fathers of the fitness movement. They battled extreme poverty, antisemitism and the medical community itself to launch an empire. Along the way, they discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger and founded bodybuilding as a sport.

Directed By: George Gallo

Written By: Andy Weiss, Brad Furman, Ellen Furman, George Gallo

  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Freestyle Releasing
  • 1 h 47 m

Bigger

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary The inspirational story of iconic brothers Joe and Ben Weider, who are the fathers of the fitness movement. They battled extreme poverty, antisemitism and the medical community itself to launch an empire. Along the way, they discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger and founded bodybuilding as a sport.

Directed By: George Gallo

Written By: Andy Weiss, Brad Furman, Ellen Furman, George Gallo

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50
Oct 12, 2018
A rags-to-riches tale that is inspirational in the most sentimental and predictable of fashions, Bigger squanders most of the potential that comes with dissecting such an underexplored world as the nascent body-building industry. At least he nails the casting, with the intimidatingly fit Tyler Hoechlin and Aneurin Barnard as the Weider brothers, the charismatic Julianne Hough as Joe’s wife.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 12, 2018
As relatively handsomely mounted as this movie is, it’s also kind of a shambles. Had I not read a press release about it prior to attending its New York screening, I would not know who the damn thing was even about until a whole half-hour in.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 11, 2018
The good in the movie is overwhelmed by its by-the-numbers approach to its story. There’s not enough in Bigger to make a fan out of non-fans of body building, and there’s enough wrong to turn off the real fans.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 11, 2018
Director George Gallo, taking a cue from his 1991 film, “29th Street,” romanticizes everything in a nostalgic glow, but without a sturdier script featuring fully dimensional characters at his disposal, the performances prove to be as unconvincing as their ethnic accents and period wigs.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 11, 2018
Gallo, whose direction has an undeniable paciness but a numbing competency, seems eager to check things off a list and move on.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 13 Films, Bee Holder Productions, Red Sky Studios
Release Date Oct 12, 2018
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline He Created Fitness As We Know It, Together They Changed the World
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