Debuting director Michael Gracey and screenwriters Jenny Bicks (2014's «Rio 2») and Bill Condon (2006's «Dreamgirls») unapologetically burst with heart - on - sleeve earnestness and sentimentality in a passion project
about leading with your heart, making
dreams a reality with pennies to your name, and proving 19th - century society wrong and pleading for
acceptance in the most glorious of ways.