The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey in his directorial debut, written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya. The film is inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum's creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the lives of its star attractions.
Principal photography on the film began in New York City in November 2016, and it premiered on December 8, 2017 aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2. The film was released in the United States on December 20, 2017 by 20th Century Fox and has grossed $376 million worldwide.
The Greatest Showman received mixed reviews, with praise for Jackman and the rest of the performances, music, and production value but criticism aimed at the artistic license taken, with some reviewers calling it "faux-inspiring and shallow". At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, the film received nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for Jackman. For the song "This Is Me", the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for Best Original Song (losing to Remember Me) at the 90th Academy Awards.
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SYNOPSIS:
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 for cheers and respectability 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?
CASTS:
- Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, an ambitious showman and entrepreneur.
- Ellis Rubin as Young P. T. Barnum
- Ziv Zaifman provides Young P. T. Barnum's singing voice
- Ellis Rubin as Young P. T. Barnum
- Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle, a playwright who becomes Barnum's partner. He is a composite character partly based on James Anthony Bailey.
- Michelle Williams as Charity Hallett Barnum, the wife of P.T. Barnum.
- Skylar Dunn as Young Charity
- Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind, the singer known as the "Swedish Nightingale".
- Loren Allred provides Lind's singing voice.
- Zendaya as Anne Wheeler, an acrobat, trapeze artist, W.D.'s sister and Phillip Carlyle's love interest
- Keala Settle as Lettie Lutz, a bearded lady. She is a composite character partly based on Josephine Clofullia and Annie Jones.
- Sam Humphrey as Charles Stratton, a dwarf performer who is also known by his stage name, General Tom Thumb.
- Austyn Johnson as Caroline Barnum, one of Barnum's daughters.
- Cameron Seely as Helen Barnum, one of Barnum's daughters.
- Paul Sparks as James Gordon Bennett, the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald.
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as W. D. Wheeler, an acrobat and Anne's brother.
- Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Deng Yan, a Chinese blade-specialist.
- Caoife Coleman and Mishay Petronelli as the Albino Twins, twins who both have albinism.
- Eric Anderson as Mr. O'Malley, a former thief whom Barnum employs at his circus.
- Daniel Everidge as The Lord of Leeds, The Huge Man.
- Shannon Holtzapffel as Prince Constantine, The Tattooed Man.
- Luciano Acuna Jr. as Fedor Jeftichew, The Dog Boy.
- Danial Son and Yusaku Komori as Chang and Eng Bunker, The "Siamese Twins".
- Jonathan Redavid as Frank Lentini, The Three-Legged Man.
- Nick Jantz as Jeff Harris, The Juggler
- Gayle Rankin as Queen Victoria.
- Fredric Lehne as Benjamin Hallett, father of Charity and abusive father-in-law of Barnum.
- Kathryn Meisle as Hannah Hallett, mother of Charity and mother-in-law of Barnum.
- Will Swenson as Philo Barnum, a tailor and the father of P. T. Barnum.
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