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Movie Review: "The Greatest Showman" Is A Rousing But Highly Flawed Piece of Entertainment

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely  Story by Jenny Bicks Screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon Directed by Michael Gracey Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs   Out of Four In the mid '90's, we got two opposite extremes of of the "true story movie: Disney's Pocahontas was  a briskly entertaining, magical film that was a pure delight from start to finish and had a great message, but bared about as much resemblance to history as McDonalds does to haute cuisine. Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp  was a long, slow. drawn out epic that told the closest thing we'll probably ever get to the real story of its title figure on the big screen, but it left many wondering why this man's story deserved to be told.  At the time, there was no question in my mind that I preferred Pocahontas, and I still refuse to apologize for my love of that film, but the distortion of h