Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
- adultery
- circus
- musical
- biography
- rags to riches
- based on true story
- outcast
- singing
- dreamer
- freak show
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Hugh Jackman
P. T. Barnum
Zac Efron
Phillip Carlyle
Michelle Williams
Charity Barnum
Rebecca Ferguson
Jenny Lind
- Zendaya — Anne Wheeler
- Keala Settle — Lettie Lutz
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II — W. D. Wheeler
- Natasha Liu Bordizzo — Deng Yan
- Paul Sparks — James Gordon Bennett
- Sam Humphrey — Charles Stratton
- Austyn Johnson — Caroline Barnum
- Cameron Seely — Helen Barnum
- Eric Anderson — Mr. O'Malley
- Ellis Rubin — Young P. T. Barnum
- Skylar Dunn — Young Charity Hallett
- Directed
- Michael Gracey
- Written
- Jenny Bicks, Bill Condon
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 10,215 ratings
- Studio
- Chernin Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, TSG Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
