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village voice > film > Tracking Shots: Bigger, Stronger, Faster*: Roid Documentary by Michelle Orange
GreenCine Daily found this 5/30/2008 on www.villagevoice.com [flag]
My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having somehow washed into the Canadian suburbs in the early '90s on the same raft as Dee-lite and crushed-velvet dresses. As described in Christopher Bell's scrappy, remarkably expansive, crazily watchable documentary, Bigger, Stronger, Faster* , a similar phenomenon played out in his hometown of ... [link]

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Bigger, Stronger, Faster*.
Published 5/30/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... Writing in the Voice, Michelle Orange reveals why her reaction to this "scrappy, remarkably expansive, crazily watchable documentary" can't help but be personal. ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: Sex, Savagery, Steroids
Published 5/30/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... Christopher Bell’s first documentary Bigger Stronger Faster* goes from focusing on his Rambo-loving brothers’ steroid abuse in Poughkeepsie to a full-bore expose on drug use in competitive sports. The Voice’s Michelle Orange calls it a “scrappy, remarkably expansive, crazily watchable documentary… Bell finds the epitome of that tragedy in his own family and digs unflinchingly at its roots.” ...

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