Rocketman has grossed $96.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $96.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $195 million, against a production budget of $40 million "Rocketman" (2019 release; 121 min.) Its DGAF lyrics — \"I'm a juvenile product of the working class/whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass\" — preceded the arrival of punk by 3 years. A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years. I don't mean to sound heartless but: parents didn't love me, check! Directed by Dexter Fletcher. \"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting\", from the 1973 classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, was Elton's hardest of hard rock. I expected it to be fun and joyous, instead it was miserable and tedious. Drink and drugs, check!

As the movie opens, Elton is in an outrageous costume and he staggers into what we then understand is his very first AA meeting. Recovery, check! Rocketman is a 2019 biographical musical film based on Elton John’s life and early career. It made the Rolling Stones sound like Englebert Humperdinck. Lots of sex, check! The film follows the fantastical journey … Rocketman (2019) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The film follows him in his early days in England, as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music, and the transformation from shy piano prodigy into international superstar. is a bio-pic about Elton John, "based on a true fantasy" as we were promised in the movie's trailer. Rocketman is a very bland biopic. With Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard. ROCKETMAN is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.