Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Keala Settle |
| Director |
Michael Gracey |
| Screenplay | Jenny Bicks, Bill Condon, |
| Music | John Debney, Joseph Trapanese, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul |
| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Editing | Tom Cross, Robert Duffy, Joe Hutshing, Michael McCusker, Jon Poll, Spencer Susser |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Chernin Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox |
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| Genre | Drama, romance |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Infrequent, mild to moderate impact of physical altercation and arson. |
| Prejudice | Fairly frequent, low impact, racial and of social class. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| PG: Parental Guidance Suggested | Rated PG for thematic elements including a brawl |
| Runtime | 105 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 10 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Helen Herimbi  A disappointing display of great superficiality. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Mariana Malan Meester van skouspel skiet effe te kort. | 10 |  |
| 24.com Jocelyn Noveck In the end, not much is happening under that circus tent | 5 | |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy I'll admit I wasn't expecting much from this film (mainly because the studio didn't show it for award voting purposes to any critics groups outside of the Globes), but I was blown away from beginning to end. | 15 |  |
| Metacritic.com 43 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 149 critics | 12 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Greatest Showman tries hard to dazzle the audience with a Barnum-style sense of wonder -- but at the expense of its complex subject's far more intriguing real-life story. | 10 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 12 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Sandie Angulo Chen Jackman and Zendaya entertain in musical Barnum biopic. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 40 users | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 7976 users | 18 | |
| IMDB 9126 Netizens | 16 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 16 | |
Average .. 59% | 12 | |