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Title: The Greatest Showman (2017)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Hugh Jackman | ... | P.T. Barnum | |
| Michelle Williams | ... | Charity Barnum | |
| Zac Efron | ... | Phillip Carlyle | |
| Zendaya | ... | Anne Wheeler | |
| Rebecca Ferguson | ... | Jenny Lind | |
| Austyn Johnson | ... | Caroline Barnum | |
| Cameron Seely | ... | Helen Barnum | |
| Keala Settle | ... | Lettie Lutz | |
| Sam Humphrey | ... | Tom Thumb | |
| Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | ... | W.D. Wheeler | |
| Eric Anderson | ... | Mr. O'Malley | |
| Ellis Rubin | ... | Young Barnum | |
| Skylar Dunn | ... | Young Charity | |
| Daniel Everidge | ... | Lord of Leeds | |
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Radu Spinghel | ... | O'Clancy |
Find out why Hugh Jackman thought The Greatest Showman would never be made, and hear Zendaya and Zac Efron share warm, fuzzy thoughts about each other.
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? Written by Nick Riganas
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To start off this review I'd like to say that before I ever watched this movie I had the opinion that it was going to be rubbish, solely because of how blown up the movie was. Everywhere I went it was "The Greatest Showman". I thought that perhaps it would be a mediocre film at best, blown out of proportion by a craze.
Boy was I wrong. Even at the beginning of the movie you are thrown straight into the extravagance of what the movie was about to become. What is basically the story of a simple man becoming a legend in the show-business, is the most flamboyant and breath-taken musical movie I've seen. The soundtrack for this movie is beyond brilliant. Having been impressed by Hugh Jackman's vocals in Les Miserable I was not surprised he pulls it out of the bag in this movie yet again. But Zac Efron really stood out in this movie and that truly surprised me.
When you finish this movie you will have the great songs stuck in your head, and you will be fully satisfied having finished the movie, your next plan will likely be getting the soundtrack and reliving the magic all over again.