Beefcake

Directed by Thom Fitzgerald

A documentary exploring 1950s muscle men's magazines and Bob Mizer's legal troubles, featuring clips from his films starring Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro.

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Beefcake is an inventive hybrid of documentary, drama and camp recreation inspired by the physique magazines of the 1950s. Thom Fitzgerald clearly enjoys the period’s coded eroticism, and although the shifts between fact and fiction can be uneven, the film is visually playful and genuinely informative about an important chapter of gay culture.

Beefcake

Directed by Thom Fitzgerald

A documentary exploring 1950s muscle men's magazines and Bob Mizer's legal troubles, featuring clips from his films starring Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro.

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Beefcake is an inventive hybrid of documentary, drama and camp recreation inspired by the physique magazines of the 1950s. Thom Fitzgerald clearly enjoys the period’s coded eroticism, and although the shifts between fact and fiction can be uneven, the film is visually playful and genuinely informative about an important chapter of gay culture.