Getting Physical
When a beautiful woman becomes a body builder, the sport takes on a whole new shape... and her life new meaning...
★★★★★
English / 104 MIN. / 1984
The Genres
The Synopsis
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.