Beefcake

1998 ""

Beefcake

6.7 | 1h31m | en | Drama

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

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6.7 | 1h31m | en | Drama , History , Documentary | More Info

Released: January. 27,1999 | Released Producted By: Emotion Pictures , Alliance Atlantis Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Daniel MacIvor , Joshua Peace , Jonathan Torrens

Director

Jennifer Stewart

Producted By

Emotion Pictures , Alliance Atlantis

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Trailers & Images

Cast

Daniel MacIvor

as Bob Mizer

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Joshua Peace

as Neil E. O'Hara (as Josh Peace)

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Jonathan Torrens

as David

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Reviews

andy-baker-1 I love this movie for a number of reasons: There is a lot of flesh, sometimes even full frontal. The lead character is beautiful and fresh (although he didn't have much of a career after this, which is a loss to us all.) And there's a lot of gay history, albeit about a very specific area of history. It's also filmed beautifully, very stylized and obviously on sets. It's gorgeous. I've seen it many times.It's not for everybody. I think that's what I like about it. You can see that they spent a good amount of money on it, but it's only realistically intended for a gay audience. So many gay movies suck. The nineties were cruel with their promise of films that were stupid or poorly done. This one isn't either. I've had my copy for years and I will continue to watch it over and over.

isaak-1 entertaining film. peace's naivete and macivor's enthusiasm never waiver as the story unfolds. a visually engaging film! interesting use of archival photos and real life interviews with several of the actual players in the story. do not leave before the end credits are completely finished.

preppy-3 Interesting combo of documentary and recreations of a muscle magazine done for (primarily) gay men in th 1950s. It's interesting when they show actual footage and pictures from the 1950s...it falls apart when they try silly factual recreations. They just don't work, they all look very fake and (I'm being the kind) the acting is LOUSY!!! Yeah the guys are handsome and muscular. If that's enough to keep your interest...fine. It got real annoying when you weren't able to tell if it was actual footage or recreations! Also putting new dialogue over old footage was not needed. Interesting film, but a lot of bad choices made in presenting the material.

JoeNCox Beefcake is a fascinating docu-drama about a unique chapter in the history of the Gay liberation movement in the United States. It's a pity this film hasn't received a wider distribution here (if any at all). The MPAA guidelines, no doubt, would require quite a bit of editing to get it under the NC17 barrier. But nudity in the film, however, far from creating a salicious aura, actually conveys a sense of innocence and freshness to most of the dramatic scenes.The interview materials, in need of some tighter editing, did drag at times, though they were, for the most part, interesting and informative. This is more than made up for in the dramatic scenes. The actors convey both the excitement of this emerging masculine/Gay "scene" and the tragedy of the legal persecution suffered by the people who promoted it.By all means, see this movie if you get a chance. It's well acted (Josh Peace is a stand out), well directed and a fitting chronicle of one part of pre-Stonewall history.