
Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor manages to open a wax museum; however, he soon shifts focus to the unique and the peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Now, s... (Full plot summary below)
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Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor manages to open a wax museum; however, he soon shifts focus to the unique and the peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Now, some people call Barnum's rich collection of oddities, an outright freak show; but, when Phineas, obsessed for cheers and respectability, gambles everything on the opera singer, Jenny Lind, to appeal to a high-brow audience, he will lose sight of the most crucial aspect of his life: his family. Will Barnum, the greatest showman, risk it all to be accepted?
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| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThe Greatest Showman is the feel-good (and feel good about it) movie every holiday season needs. P.T. Barnum is famous for saying there’s a sucker born every minute and he’s still right. For 105 minutes I’m a sucker for his movie, that may not be the greatest show on Earth but close enough. |
| Huffington PostJackie K. CooperGreat acting, great music, good plot. Unlike "La La Land" this movie hits all the right notes. |
| SassyMamaInLACourtney HowardDo yourselves a favor: buy the soundtrack and make up your own plot to connect the dots in between the songs. What's there now is utterly tone-deaf. |
| We Live EntertainmentScott MenzelA remarkable celebration of music, creativity, and imagination. It is 2017 's La La Land and a cinematic love letter to dreamers everywhere. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellWhile maybe not the greatest show, it is one of the best musicals of the last decade. |
| Cinemaclips.comRoger TennisThis tuneful, joyful and emotional spectacle is filled with razzle-dazzle and wonder. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanGlorious cinematic spectacle done exactly right. Again and again, "The Greatest Showman" lives up to its title. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe director, Michael Gracey, is an Australian maker of commercials who has never directed a feature before, and he works with an exuberant sincerity that can’t be faked. The Greatest Showman is a concoction, the kind of film where the pieces all click into place, yet at an hour and 45 minutes it flies by, and the link it draws between P.T. Barnum and the spirit of today is more than hype. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyThe Greatest Showman, directed with verve and panache by Michael Gracey, is an unabashed piece of pure entertainment, punctuated by 11 memorable songs composed by Oscar- and Tony-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe nervous energy musical works too hard to sustain a magic it never achieves onscreen. |