Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg’s enchanting biographical movie The Fabelmans saw the filmmaker ... It was a dramatically filmed thriller with the model train set his father gifted him for Chanukah ...

The Fabelmans opens with Sammy Fabelman going with his parents to see The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), after which he recreates a violent train crash sequence at home — essentially marking his ...

Spielberg told him the minimal amount of train he needed for the episode ... including the director’s latest, The Fabelmans. A portrait of Spielberg as a young artist, The Fabelmans follows stand-in ...