Rocketman

Amazing songs, terrific dance choreography, and ostentatious costumes highlight this entertaining, well-acted, factually inspired, critically acclaimed, moving, 121-minute musical that showcases the early life of talented, gay, charismatic, flamboyant pianist and singer Elton John (Taron Egerton) growing up in Liverpool, England, with his adulterous, cruel mother (Bryce Dallas Howard) and kindhearted grandmother (Gemma Jones) while estranged from his indifferent father (Steven Mackintosh), his historic rise to fame despite dealing with drug and alcohol issues, his lifelong collaboration and friendship with lyrist Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell), and working with his greedy, manipulative, coldhearted manager John Reid (Richard Madden).
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