The Greatest Showman (2017)

The Greatest Showman rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 343K votes

Rotten Tomatoes56%

Metacritic48%

TMDb7.858/10· 10K votes

With 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 48/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Greatest Showman

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Cast of The Greatest Showman

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  Hugh Jackman

  as P. T. Barnum

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  Zac Efron

  as Phillip Carlyle

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  Michelle Williams

  as Charity Barnum

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  Rebecca Ferguson

  as Jenny Lind

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  Zendaya

  as Anne Wheeler

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  Keala Settle

  as Lettie Lutz

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  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  as W. D. Wheeler

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  Natasha Liu Bordizzo

  as Deng Yan

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  Paul Sparks

  as James Gordon Bennett

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  Sam Humphrey

  as Charles Stratton

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  Austyn Johnson

  as Caroline Barnum

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  Cameron Seely

  as Helen Barnum

The Greatest Showman facts

Budget

$84M

Box office

$459.1M

Our take on The Greatest Showman

Michael Gracey's 2017 drama tells the story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that grew into the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey enterprise. Staged as a bold, music-forward spectacle, it treats Barnum's rise as a fable about ambition, invention and the hunger to belong, built around big production numbers and a strong emotional pull. It suits viewers who love full-throated musicals and don't mind a heightened, crowd-pleasing tone over strict biographical realism. If you want polished songs, sweeping choreography and an uplifting arc anchored by an outsized real-life figure, this delivers that energy with sincerity and gloss.