Directed by:
Trudie StylerCinematography:
Dante SpinottiComposer:
Dan RomerCast:
Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin, AnnaSophia Robb, Bette Midler, Laverne Cox, Willa Fitzgerald, Lorraine Toussaint, Ian Nelson, Larry Pine (more)VOD (1)
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Could Billy Bloom be like everyone else if he wanted to? It would certainly save him a whole lot of trouble. But he has absolutely no desire to be like them. When others call him theatrical, he takes it as a compliment; when his classmates feel provoked by his drive to be different, it only motivates him further. 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down', his father warns him. That does not deter Billy from deciding to run for homecoming queen. Somewhere in-between David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Freddy Mercury and Oscar Wilde, in the transgressive space of pop culture and dressed up as a high school comedy with wit, heart and a dazzling cast, Freak Show is about the violence of conformity and the power of self-determination. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Alex Lawther
UK
Best movies:
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Last Duel (2021)
X+Y (2014)
Abigail Breslin
USA
Best movies:
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Signs (2002)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
AnnaSophia Robb
USA
Best movies:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
Jack of the Red Hearts (2015)
Bette Midler
USA
Best movies:
The Rose (1979)
Gypsy (1993) (TV movie)
What Women Want (2000)
Laverne Cox
USA
Best movies:
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Freak Show (2017)
Inventing Anna (2022) (series)
Willa Fitzgerald
USA
Best movies:
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) (series)
Freak Show (2017)
The Goldfinch (2019)
Lorraine Toussaint
Best movies:
Dangerous Minds (1995)
Nimona (2023)
Dark Skies (1996) (series)
Ian Nelson
USA
Best movies:
The Judge (2014)
Freak Show (2017)
The Best of Me (2014)
Larry Pine
USA
Best movies:
Dead Man Walking (1995)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Sunday (1997)
Christopher Dylan White
Best movies:
Freak Show (2017)
First Reformed (2017)
As You Are (2016)
Faith Logan
USA
Best movies:
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Michael Park
USA
Best movies:
Stranger Things (2016) (series)
Freak Show (2017)
Peter Pan Live! (2014) (TV movie)
Mickey Sumner
UK
Best movies:
Frances Ha (2012)
American Made (2017)
CBGB (2013)
Celia Weston
USA
Best movies:
K-PAX (2001)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
John McEnroe
West Germany
Best movies:
Wimbledon (2004)
Freak Show (2017)
Anger Management (2003)
Wally Dunn
USA
Best movies:
The School of Rock (2003)
Freak Show (2017)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Marceline Hugot
USA
Best movies:
United 93 (2006)
Godless (2017) (series)
Mildred Pierce (2011) (series)
Charlotte Ubben
Best movies:
Tallulah (2016)
Freak Show (2017)
Joika (2023)
Olli Haaskivi
USA
Best movies:
Oppenheimer (2023)
Going in Style (2017)
Freak Show (2017)