The Greatest Showman

12/20/20171h 45m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The impossible comes true. ~

Overview:

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Director:

Michael Gracey

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$84,000,000.00

Revenue:

$459,066,134.00

Key words:

adultery
circus
musical
biography
rags to riches
based on true story
outcast
singing
dreamer
freak show
absurd
amused
cliché
complicated

Cast

Hugh Jackman

~ as ~

P. T. Barnum

Zac Efron

~ as ~

Phillip Carlyle

Michelle Williams

~ as ~

Charity Barnum

Rebecca Ferguson

~ as ~

Jenny Lind

Zendaya

~ as ~

Anne Wheeler

Keala Settle

~ as ~

Lettie Lutz

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

~ as ~

W. D. Wheeler

Natasha Liu Bordizzo

~ as ~

Deng Yan

Paul Sparks

~ as ~

James Gordon Bennett

Sam Humphrey

~ as ~

Charles Stratton

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Reviews (6)

MQ
Movie Queen41
Written 7 year(s) ago
6
The critics have been really harsh on this movie. While not a great movie, it's still good enough to be enjoyed by kids during the holiday season. There are fun musical numbers and Hugh Jackman excels in his role as Barnum. It's not meant to be a realistic biopic. It's an enjoyable musical fantasy.
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baycon792
Written 7 year(s) ago
10
Pretty solid movie if you are into that kind of movies (musicals). Audio fine tuning to the songs were in fact somewhat excessive, but to my opinion the movie was meant to be viewed in theaters with loud sounds so everything "should" sound nearly perfect. The songs and dancing acts were well performed and I really liked Hugh Jackman's acting. Overall, it's a pleasant movie to watch and perhaps even worth watching twice.
Gimly
Written 6 year(s) ago
3
I thought that this was a terrible idea way before I ever saw the movie itself, and I thought this was a terrible movie way before I ever found out what P.T. Barnham was actually like. What a toilet fire in every sense, this is one of those rare examples where I just can't understand what everyone is loving here.

Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.
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ahmedrezik
Written 5 year(s) ago
~~
one of the musicals that bring you joy in life
CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
Like many other folks, I have a sort of allergy to hype: particularly when it is built on power ballads and an actor who just doesn't "belong" in the role. I also saw Michael Crawford doing his "Barnum" thing on stage in 1982 - so to be fair, my expectations of this were not especially high. I was pleasantly surprised! Jackman as the street urchin son of an itinerant tailor with grand dreams is really pretty good. He brings oodles of charisma to the part of P.T. Barnum determined to win the love of "Charity" (Michelle Williams), despite her being from a wealthy family living well beyond his meagre means. The chronology of his actual achievements - his marriage, family and his American Museum of Curiosities morphing into a circus of all things diverse from the human race - including Sam Humphrey as "Gen. Tom Thumb" and a super Keala Settle as the "Bearded Lady" - is well enough documented and this musical version pretty much follows the rags to riches tale of this inspirational and aspirational man as he taps into the lucrative vein of giving the public what they want. That public is, however, not the one he wants - he wants the toffs, too - so enlisting the help of debonaire, bored, theatre producer Zac Efron "Philip Carlyle" they head to the UK for an audience with Queen Victoria - the epitome of "acceptable society" at which he meets Jenny Lind - the legendary Swedish singer and his fortunes seem to be unstoppable... Efron is good, too - you are reminded of just how far he has come since his "High School Musical" (2006) days; as is Rebecca Ferguson in the role of "Lind". I have to say that I found the songs a little bland; the film lacks a killer song - "A Million Dreams", "Come Alive" and "Rewrite the Stars" do get the toes tapping, but they meld into each other leaving a pleasing, but unmemorable soundtrack to this charming family drama. It's good, not great - and far better than I was expecting.

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