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The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey in his directorial debut, the movie was written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and starring Zac Efron, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams and Rebecca Ferguson. 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. The Greatest Showman is now the sixth biggest movie in the world, generating 113million in only five weekends.

“The Greatest Showman” is a good old-fashioned cornball PG musical that is also a scintillatingly flashy — and woke! — immersion in up-to-the-minute razzmatazz. It is has a rating of 8/10. It takes the life of P.T. Barnum, the anything-goes circus impresario of the 1800s, who is played with irresistible effervescence by Hugh Jackman, and turns him into a saintly huckster-maestro who invented the spirit of modern showbiz by daring to follow his dream. At the same time, the film takes Barnum’s infamous believe-it-or-not attractions — Tom Thumb, Dog Boy, Tattoo Man, the Bearded Lady — and makes them over into sensitive enlightened outcasts, a kind of 19th-century freak-show gallery of identity politics.

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