Greatest Showman (The)
- Director: Michael Gracey
- Writer: Jenny Bicks; Bill Condon
- Producer: James Mangold; Jenno Topping
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It cost $84,000,000 to make and grossed nearly half a billion at the box office.
Truly...a celebration of being different...with the anthemic: This is Me!
Musicals don't come much better than this...it - shockingly - missed out on the Oscar for Best Song, the Academy giving one of their 'political' awards to a wholly undeserving song. And that was it for the nominations...it really is the film that demonstrated - beyond all reasonable doubt - that awards - especially the Academy - are a sham.
Still...who needs an award when you write the song that defined a [younger] generation!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Orphaned, penniless but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American Phineas Taylor Barnum will always be remembered as the man with the gift to effortlessly blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor will manage to open a wax museum but will soon shift focus to the unique and peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Some will call Barnum's wide collection of oddities, a freak show; however, when the obsessed showman gambles everything on the opera singer Jenny Lind to appeal to a high-brow audience, he will somehow lose sight of the most important aspect of his life: his family. Will Barnum risk it all to be accepted?
Cast & Characters
Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum;
Michelle Williams as Charity Barnum;
Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle;
Zendaya as Anne Wheeler;
Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind;
Austyn Johnson as Caroline Barnum;
Cameron Seely as Helen Barnum;
Keala Settle as Lettie Lutz;
Sam Humphrey as Tom Thumb;
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as W.D. Wheeler;
Eric Anderson as Mr. O'Malley;
Ellis Rubin as Young Barnum;
Skylar Dunn as Young Charity;
Daniel Everidge as Lord of Leeds;
Radu Spinghel as O'Clancy