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Bigger
The inspirational tale of the grandfathers of fitness as we now know it, Joe and Ben Weider. Facing anti-Semitism and extreme poverty, the brothers beat all odds to build an empire and inspire future generations.
13 July 1988, Wichita, Kansas, USA
13 July 1941, Rochester, New York, USA
23 October 1991, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
November1977, Bernards Township, New Jersey, USA
24 August 1958, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
June 9, 1990 in Australia
28 August 1958, Binghampton, New York, USA
October 12, 2018
...it's ultimately difficult not to embrace the rags-to-riches bent of the central character's trajectory of success.
October 07, 2018
I thought the characters were well-fleshed (in more ways than one).
October 12, 2018
The Weiders denounced drinking and espoused protein shakes, but the film suggests you can never have too much cheese.
October 12, 2018
It doesn't matter how hard Hoechlin is trying when every other inch of Bigger looks and sounds so patently fake.
October 11, 2018
Without a sturdier script featuring fully dimensional characters... the performances prove to be as unconvincing as their ethnic accents and period wigs.
October 09, 2018
After an hour of being a film you endure rather than enjoy, the character of Arnold enters Bigger, played by Australian body-builder/actor Calum Von Moger, and he is a revelation.
October 12, 2018
Overly sanitized biopic tackles bigotry; mild violence.
October 11, 2018
A missed opportunity, the kind of yo-yo-ing highlights version of a life that seems less examined than expedited.
October 12, 2018
As relatively handsomely mounted as this movie is, it's also kind of a shambles.
December 16, 2018
the film follows the biopic formula so closely that it loses its identity in the process.