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Release Date: 2008

Categories: Movies, Culture & Society, Biography, Indie, Documentary, Sports, Social issues

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a 2008 documentary film directed by Christopher Bell about the use of anabolic steroids as performance-enhancing drugs in the United States and how this practice relates to the American Dream. The film had its world premiere on January 19, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008, and opened in limited release in the United States on May 30, 2008. On December 14, 2008, Mike Bell, brother of director Chris Bell, who was prominently featured in the film, died at 37. Christian Boeving who appeared in... MORE

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a 2008 documentary film directed by Christopher Bell about the use of anabolic steroids as performance-enhancing drugs in the United States and how this practice relates to the American Dream. The film had its world premiere on January 19, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008, and opened in limited release in the United States on May 30, 2008. On December 14, 2008, Mike Bell, brother of director Chris Bell, who was prominently featured in the film, died at 37. Christian Boeving who appeared in the film admitting steroid use, was later fired by his sponsor, MuscleTech. Christian was later interviewed on a small cable television show 'The Gregory Mantell Show', where he talked about the repercussions. The * in the title refers to how athletes who are implicated in using performance-enhancing drugs have their records postfixed by an asterisk (*). The title itself refers to the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger". The tagline also evokes the lines of the opening sequence of The Six Million Dollar Man, "Better, Stronger, Faster" implying that those who take steroids are artificially LESS