Loosely based on the real-life visionary, the film shows how Barnum (Jackman), a family man, turned his misfortune into a world of mystique and magic that would become the "Greatest Show on Earth." ...

It's in this spirit of Barnum as a figure whose legend loomed even in his own lifetime that the film The Greatest Showman hopes to find its own audience this Christmas. Based not on Barnum's ...

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 ...

Hugh Jackman's The Greatest Showman is finally returning to streaming! Here's where you can watch the epic musical starting ...

Barnum was born on July 5 ... and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Corey Boutilier’s film will be shown at Bethel Cinema, 269 Greenwood Road. Boutilier will greet guests ...

The film follows Gesualdi as he creates the statue while exploring Barnum’s life and why Bethel should still honor him. Harding ran his own law firm, Stephen Harding Law, which is based in ...

Saxon said individuals such as Tom Thumb often became well off and in his research on Barnum he never came across any employee who had a negative thing to say about Barnum. Near the film’s end ...

The Greatest Showman, released this week, amounts to what was expected: a good-hearted film that situates Barnum as a white savior. Its message of tolerance and acceptance is great to hear in a ...

But the film leaves out some of Barnum's more problematic attractions, most of whom Barnum displayed to capitalize on American fascination with the racial other. For instance, there's no room in ...

P.T. Barnum's life, the things he did and the things that were done to him up to the time of the inspiration for the circus that was to become Barnum & Bailey, proves engrossing if not sensational ...