Puffing Iron

You’ve heard of moms who gain the superhuman strength necessary in a crisis to lift cars off their trapped children? Puffing Iron is sort of like that, only with stoners and making rent.

Set during a hot summer in Little Havana, Jamie (Elijah Moseley) and Ace (Bryan Serra) blissfully float through life eating ice cream, watching movies, and smoking weed—until an eviction notice appears.

The good news: A fourth-place finish in their local gym’s powerlifting competition would cover the housing short…and maybe another eighth.

The bad: Their guns are currently more like spitball straws.

What begins as a semi-harebrained lark, however, soon becomes more transformative, physically and otherwise. Somewhere along the road from puff to buff lies transcendence.