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The Greatest Showman
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Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth.
Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth.
Actors:
Rachel Quiner,
Chris Grabher,
Frances Emily Schramm,
Shannon Holtzapffel,
Louise Hindsbo,
Janet Stanwood,
Yusaku Komori
Rachel Quiner
Chris Grabher
28 November 1980, Queens, New York, USA
Frances Emily Schramm
Shannon Holtzapffel
Louise Hindsbo
Janet Stanwood
Yusaku Komori
Director:
Michael Gracey
Michael Gracey
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Austyn Johnson #Cameron Seely #Eric Anderson #Hugh Jackman #Keala Settle #Michael Gracey #Michelle Williams #Rebecca Ferguson #Sam Humphrey #The Greatest Showman #The Greatest Showman (2017) #Yahya Abdul-Mateen II #Zac Efron #Zendaya
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December 28, 2017
Stare all you want at this motley crew of misfits because they give us sentiment and entertainment in return.
December 28, 2017
Hugh Jackman is asked to merely coast in a splashy but shallow picture that might as well have been called American Idle.
December 22, 2017
Historians now agree that Barnum wasn't the one who said "There's a sucker born every minute," but it's hard to escape the feeling that you're being sold a poptimist bill of goods here.
December 28, 2017
What stands the film apart is its relevance to today's times. It touches upon social issues like class discrimination or aversion towards human abnormalities that continue to plague our society even today.
December 22, 2017
The closest it gets to a hummable toe-tapper is Come Alive, which, at the risk of damning with faint praise, sounds like a Miami Sound Machine D-side.
December 28, 2017
The Greatest Showman is an entertaining trifle.
December 26, 2017
The director, Michael Gracey, delivers quick doses of excitement in splashy scenes but has little feel for the choreographic action, offers scant historical substance, and displays slender dramatic insight.
December 28, 2017
... [Hugh Jackman's] feel-good new film, The Greatest Showman, is where he truly gets to unleash his inner trouper, and he barely stops singing, dancing and flicking around a top hat from beginning to end.
December 21, 2017
The Greatest Showman is a perfunctory effort in story, music, dance, and direction that proffers empty messages about uniqueness, reaching not for the stars but for bland homogeneity.
December 28, 2017
The Greatest Showman is a disjointed, glossy, sugar-coated mess that just skates by on Jackman's natural charm and charisma.
December 22, 2017
This isn't the story of Barnum's life, but a formulaic rags-to-riches story grafted onto the broad outlines of Barnum's career as a circus entrepreneur.
December 21, 2017
An old-fashioned musical with a none-more-zeitgeisty songsheet, it may not be a flawless piece of storytelling, but it's a pretty decent show.