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Beefcake
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Thom Fitzgerald
Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 29, 1999
DVD: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Canada / UK
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Daniel MacIvor, Joshua Peace, Carroll Godsman, Jonathon Torrens, and Jack Griffin Mazeika
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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What The Critics Said
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Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
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.
Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
There's an undeniable energy, originality and -- most hearteningly -- optimism here that makes Beefcake well worth your time, shortcomings and all.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jim Sullivan
It leaves you with an odd, sweet-and-sour taste - nostalgia painted in pastel colors, streaked with black smears.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Much to enjoy in this potpourri of silly fun and forbidden games, but a bit less ambition and a tad more focus might have helped.
Village Voice Vince Aletti
Beefcake's messiness has real charm, and its tribute to Mizer is both appropriately complicated and poignantly sexy.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A fascinating double-edged portrait of 1950s Los Angeles.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An illuminating and engrossing look at the life and times of pioneer Los Angeles physique photographer Bob Mizer
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
As a mix of nonfiction and wafer-thin drama, however, it's a genial mess in which both elements emerge undercooked
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
A heady, impressionistic mixture of biography, fantasy and social history in which it isn't always clear which is which.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
Like the melancholy remininces of an old relative who lived through an exciting, even harrowing time, but no longer possesses the mental faculties to really flesh out the tale they're spinning.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
This movie's attempt to reinvent Mizer as a First Amendment hero isn't as effective as its triumphant display of beefcake, which is, after all, the movie's raison d'etre.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Ultimately this is a sharp-focus issue movie, decrying intolerance as it explores the effects of labeling, the complexity of fetishizing, and the differences between business and crime.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A campy docu-drama about the secretly gay world of 1950's muscle magazines.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gilbert E. gave it an 8:
Sensitive to 1950's homophobic and closet like attitude of people toward homosexuality. The contrast comparing 50's and now could not be more true.
