Bigger

Name: Bigger
Genre: Drama
Released: October 12, 2018
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Calum Von Moger, Colton Haynes, DJ Qualls, Julianne Hough

2018

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Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: October 12, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Aneurin Barnard, Calum Von Moger, Colton Haynes, DJ Qualls, Julianne Hough, Kevin Durand, Max Martini, Robert Forster, Steve Guttenberg, Tyler Hoechlin, Victoria Justice

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.

Director: George Gallo

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 107 min

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Barry Hertz

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. Read full review

Jim Slotek

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

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. Read full review

Robert Abele

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. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

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. Read full review

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