Pumping Iron II: The Women
- Director: George Butler
- Writer: George Butler, George Butler, Charles Gaines, Charles Gaines
- Producer: George Butler, Virginia Lynch
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"A Story of Strength, Desire, Courage... and a New Definition of Woman."
"Pumping Iron," the film that turned the obscure sport of male bodybuilding into an overnight phenomenon and made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, broke the ground. Now, experience PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, a film that is changing the way the world views the female physique-creating "a new definition of the female form." Join four women as they prepare for the 1983 Caesars Palace World Cup Championship: the sultry and curvaceous Rachel McLish, the current champion; the almost manly, super-muscular Bev Francis, Rachel's toughest competition; and newcomers Lori Bowen and Carla Dunlap. Four women who have devoted their lives to the pursuit of their conception of the "perfect" female form, spending grueling hours torturing themselves on Nautilus machines and browning themselves under tanning lamps. Learn their personal struggles and public triumphs that make up their unique world as they struggle both with their bodies' limitations and the world's limitations on what that body ought to look like. If muscles make a man "masculine," what do they make a woman?
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Cast & Characters
Bev Francis (as Self)
Rachel McLish (as Self)
Lori Bowen Rice (as Self (as Lori Bowen))
Carla Dunlap (as Self)
Steve Michalik (as Self)
Steve Weinberger (as Self)
Randy Rice (as Self)
Kris Alexander (as Self)
Sherry Atton (as Self)
Lori Birdsong (as Self)
Seliha Chamberlain (as Self)
Lydia Cheng (as Self)
Carolyn Cheshire (as Self)
Shelly Gruwell (as Self)
Gladys Portugues (as Self)
Lisser Frost-Larsen (as Self (as Lisa Frost Larsen))
Tina Plackinger (as Self (as Tina Plakinger))
Marjo Selin (as Self)
Inger Zetterquist (as Self)
Christian Janatsch (as Self)
Bob Plakinger (as Self)
Hanu Selin (as Self)
Brian Moss (as Self)
Nick Staskiewicz (as Self)
Eddie Giuliani (as Self)