With the provocative tag line, “Is it really cheating if everyone’s doing it?” the Chris Bell documentary exploded onto the Sundance Scene and into the hearts and minds of athletic competitors everywhere. Bigger, Stronger, Faster is both personal and public, interviewing everyone from his mother and two steroid-using brothers to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Johnson, and Carl Lewis. Bell’s theme centers around the American obsession to be the superlative, whatever it may be: the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, the best.
