Name: 'Muscle Beach' with director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman at The Nightlight 🎬
Start: 2026-04-21T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 30 N High St, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44308

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We’re thrilled to host the Akron premiere of MUSCLE BEACH, a lyrical, kinetic, and darkly comic journey into the heart of the American weird from filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman. 💪🏖️
Moving uncannily between documentary and dramatic neo-noir, the film centers on weightlifting influencer Ike Catcher who plays Abe, a fictional version of himself, a bodybuilder in search of his missing best friend.
Over the course of a day, Abe finds himself pulled into a paranoid journey of tainted supplements, supernatural conspiracies, and naked greed, set against the sun-bleached streets and back-alleys of Venice Beach – the last true vestige of the American carnival.
The film stars breakout talent Lindsey Normington (Anora, Hacks, The Idol), two-time Mr. Vienna and ‘King of Muscle Beach’ Ike Catcher, and 90’s cult movie icon, Kirk Baltz (a.k.a. the guy who got his ear cut off in Reservoir Dogs).
We hope you’ll come through to experience 'Muscle Beach', and we’re pumped to welcome Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman for a post-screening Q&A. See you there! 🎬🎬🎬
MUSCLE BEACH, 93 mins, 2026
After soaring high and flaming out in Hollywood, Abe, a celebrated bodybuilder, returns home across the 405 to Venice Beach, where it all started. But Abe’s beloved boardwalk feels different. There’s a nasty bite to the sea breeze, a slew of unexplained overdoses putting the gym rats on edge, strange supernatural sightings on the pier hinting at something primordial lurking beneath the surface of sun-dappled Venice. And Jay—his old lifting partner, his former roommate, the one person he truly abandoned in his pursuit of fame—has disappeared, leaving Alice, his ex, alone to take care of their infant son.
Throughout an increasingly desperate afternoon, Abe searches for his old friend, navigating an odyssey of local characters, and unearthing a subterranean war for the soul of this sparkling, seedy strip of waterfront, sitting on some of the most valuable real estate in the hemisphere.