Beefcake (1999) (Special Edition) - DVD  E-mail this product to a friend

Behind the gleaming, well-oiled muscles and high-minded fitness advice of 1950's physique magazines was a secret world known only to those on the inside. This was a world of swinging cats, daring hopheads, reckless love affairs and a repressed sensuality that was willing to risk anything for release. Thom Fitzgerald, in the follow-up film to his award-winning debut "The Hanging Garden," reveals this hidden world with "Beefcake," the funny and provocative tale of the rise and fall of physique photographer Bob Mizer. Mizer created the popular magazine Physique Pictorial - developing devoted followers among men, women and aspiring bodybuilders - before being prosecuted by the law. "Beefcake" features physique guru Jack LaLanne, photographers Russ Warner and Dave Martin, former models Jim Lassiter, Joe Lietel and Joe D'Allesandro, as well as muscle memorabilia fan and author of the book "Beefcake," Valentine Hooven.