Strongman (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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Stanley Pleskun is the subject of the documentary “Strongman.”
An Iron Man’s Life of Might-Have-Beens
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: January 25, 2011

“Strongman,” Zachary Levy’s lump-in-the-throat portrait of an aging muscleman, is an outsider tale of unforced rawness and lilting poignancy. Not that Stanley Pleskun, a k a Stanless Steel, is in any way clapped out: he can hoist 10,000-pound trucks with his legs and three adults with a single finger. It’s the emotional heavy lifting that does him in. More