Product: Beefcake [VHS] (1998)
Rating: 5.0
Beefcake, the movie
How did I miss this movie when it came out? I happened upon it in Amazon, and since the price was right, I thought I'd take a chance on it. It is part documentary/part recreation of the career of Bob Mizer who created and published Physique Pictorial in the 1950's and 1960's. The movie is very funny and not at all insulting to its subject. Since I was not there I cannot say how accurate it is, and the ex-models they interview are clearly trying to gloss over their shady pasts, but as far as I can tell it gives a lot of insight into a world once scandalous, and now old fashioned and unnecessary. It kind of makes you nostalgic for the old days. If you are interested in the subject or the way things were before the sexual revolution, it will not disappoint you.