It was advertised with alternative titles:Forbidden Love, The Monster Show,andNature""s Mistakes.The morality play remains a ruly amazing masterpiece about an odd clique of sympathetically-portrayed, but grotesquely-deformed circus "freaks" in a traveling sideshow that took revenge on a beautiful, gold-digging, heartless high-wire trapeze artist that wronged one of the freaks.In another flashback to 60 years earlier (when he was 50 years old), Bilbo remembered how he was visited by Wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) and then by an unexpected assemblage of 13 boisterous Dwarves (Dwalin, Balin, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Dori, Nori, Ori, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and their leader Thorin Oakenshield) who completely pillaged his pantry of food and drink.With the tagline: "The "Slicer"...The "Dicer"...And This Time, They""re Not Any "Nicer"!With a production budget of approximately $25 million, and box-office gross revenues of $113 million (worldwide)...You""ve been there, right?...You sat on the edge of the bed, didn""t ya? You took off your shoes, put your finger between your toes and picked your feet.