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
Alexandra Paul
Kendall Gibley
Sandahl Bergman
Nadine Cawley
David Naughton
Mickey Ritter
John Aprea
Craig Cawley
Janet Carroll
Myra Gibley
Sydney Penny
Ramona
Franco Columbu
Himself
Robert Webber
Hugh Gibley
Reuven Bar-Yotam
Jorgen
Earl Boen
Byron Waldo
Thomas F. Duffy
Killer
Phil Rubenstein
Maury
Lisa Lyon
Pilar Jones
Rachel McLish
Tawny Runyon
Yana Nirvana
Astrid Anders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sandahl Bergman was fresh off Conan the Destroyer and brought actual sword-and-sorcery cred to this cable TV melodrama.
This film captures the exact moment female bodybuilding emerged from novelty to sport — the 1984 Ms. Olympia featured is the real competition, not recreated.
US
