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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.
Practical Effects
Actual 1984 bodybuilders flexing for authenticity.
Costume
Peak leotard-and-leg-warmer cinematography.

Director
Steven Hilliard Stern
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