The Greatest Showman (2017)

Barnum is a poor tailor's son who falls in love with the rich daughter of one of his father's clients. They're barely making ends meet until he hits on an idea to find "unusual persons" to add to his museum of curiosities. Though low-brow, the place becomes popular and makes the Barnum family rich -- but are the performers accepted only when they're on stage? Are they being celebrated or exploited?

The songs are forgettable and it's all broad strokes with little internal motivation. I like each member of the main cast, but the film wound up just thin and boring. We'd actually attempted to watch this two years ago and gave up less than 15 minutes in... I'm not completely sure why we didn't accept our initial verdict and leave this unviewed.

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