All Man: The International Male Story

2022

1 hr. 23 min.

Documentary

LGBTQ+

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95%

19 Reviews

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ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog's unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men's fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions. This character-driven documentary crafts a portrait of a band of outsiders who changed the way men would look -- at themselves, at each other and how the world would look at them. This is their story -- a modern day fairy tale about a dream that really did come true.

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Bryan Darling

Director

Jesse Finley Reed

Director

Matt Bomer

Narrator

Peter Jones

Writer

Bryan Darling

Producer

Peter Jones

Producer

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Elisabeth Vincentelli

New York Times

The film is more dutiful than artful, ticking one box after another, a tendency that is especially obvious when it ventures to the dark side...

Jun 6, 2023

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Maxwell Rabb

Chicago Reader

All Man: The International Male Story offers a touching retrospect of this nearly forgotten landmark of men’s fashion.

Jun 3, 2023

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Manuel Betancourt

Variety

As a chronicle of a queer entrepreneurial success, the film is a delight — even, or perhaps especially, because it often sidesteps the thornier conversations its subject brings up

Sep 28, 2022

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

This magazine essentially created a whole new market of young men looking for forward-thinking clothing... The filmmakers also look beneath the almost outrageously fit surfaces, exploring pointed themes around sexuality and body consciousness.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jun 13, 2023

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Hope Madden

The Screening Room Podcast

One of the great triumphs of any documentary is to be able to introduce you to a world you didn't know and never realized you needed to know, until now.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 9, 2023

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Patrick McDonald

HollywoodChicago.com

The catalog caught a wave, the deeper expression in men’s fashions in the 1970s & ‘80s that eventually the male fashion world got to, & the doc lays in out in a "male order" delivery. Innovation and timing, the stuff of the American Dream. HAPPY PRIDE!

Rated: 4/5

Jun 8, 2023

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Synopsis

ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog's unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men's fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions. This character-driven documentary crafts a portrait of a band of outsiders who changed the way men would look -- at themselves, at each other and how the world would look at them. This is their story -- a modern day fairy tale about a dream that really did come true.

Director: Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed
Executive Producer: Peter Jones
Screenwriter: Peter Jones, Peter Jones
Production Co: Peter Jones Productions, Bright Eyes
Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English

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