

Freaks
Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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7.8/10
1,347 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $310.6K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- infidelity
- dwarf
- attempted murder
- clown
- beauty
- carnival
- romance
- revenge
- murder
- black and white
- newlywed
- pre-code
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical12 Feb 1932
- TheatricalNR20 Feb 1932
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12re-release27 Sept 2002
- Physical12DVD. Film banned in UK on initial release.19 Jun 2006
AustriaAT
- Theatrical161 Jan 1932
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)161 Jan 1932
BrazilBR
- Physical16IMDB25 Apr 2005
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical28 Jun 1972
FinlandFI
- TV28 Dec 1995
- Theatrical (limited)Helsinki8 Aug 1997
FranceFR
- Theatrical187 Oct 1932
GermanyDE
- TV165 Oct 1969
ItalyIT
- Theatrical (limited)Venice Film Festival7 Sept 1962
- TV30 Sept 1982
JapanJP
- Theatricalre-release9 Aug 1996
- Theatricalre-release5 Nov 2005
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1216 May 1933
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Freaks was released on 1 January 1932.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
4/26/2014
This is for the misfits the freaks and the runts. Tod Browning's Freaks is as infamous today as it was back in the 30s when it shook film watchers to the core. Of course time has diluted some of its impact, you can imagine that a modern day horror fan drooling over torture porn et al being completely bemused by the reputation afforded Freaks. Yet it still remains a unique and nightmarish piece of film making, the …
- T7/10
tmdb17996075
2/14/2017
If I have to be honest, I'd say that I have uncertain opinions concerning this film on the whole. On the one hand, I can't say that I didn't enjoy 'Freaks', mainly because of its nice display of bizarre cast members. On the other hand, I can't help feeling slightly at fault, considering that these were real people who probably suffered a lot in their lives because of their malformations, something they obviously coul…
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