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The Truman Show|Jim Carrey
The Truman Show
Jim Carrey and Laura Linney
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Overview

Comic actor Jim Carrey plays it (mostly) straight for this smart satire from director Peter Weir (DEAD POETS SOCIETY). The life of Truman Burbank (Carrey) has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world. But soon, cracks begin to show in the constructed world, and Truman questions his existence while everyone around him is in on the joke. Weir directs a fine cast, including Laura Linney as Truman's wife and Ed Harris as the show's director. Screenwriter Andrew Niccol also added interesting twists to the scripts for S1M0NE and GATTACA.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Peter Weir - Director
Jim Carrey
Laura Linney
Noah Emmerich
Natascha McElhone
Holland Taylor
Ed Harris
Brian Delate
Paul Giamatti
Peter Krause
Harry Shearer

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Collector's Edition, Special Edition, Dubbed, AC-3, Dolby)
  • Run Time: 102
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 032429258458
  • Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
  • Rating: PG (MPAA)
  • Release Date: August 2017

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"...[Carrey's] performance is simply spellbinding..." -- 5 out of 5 stars - 10/01/1999 Total Film, p.104


"...Carrey triumphs in a hilarious and heartfelt performance that reveals an uncommon sensitivity and grace..." - 06/25/1998 Rolling Stone, p.99-100


"...Poignant and haunting....A moving exploration of creation-anxiety..." - 10/01/1998 Sight and Sound, p.36-58


"...Niccol's witty script tunes into our hunger..." -- Rating: A - 01/15/1999 Entertainment Weekly, pp.64-5


"...Adventurous, provocative, even daring, THE TRUMAN SHOW has been directed with enviable grace and restraint by Peter Weir..." Los Angeles Times


4 stars out of 5 -- "1998's ingenious THE TRUMAN SHOW is a remarkable exercise in pre-emptively satirizing the reality TV phenomenon that it surely helped to inspire." - 05/01/2006 Uncut, p.150


"[D]ramatic and emotional....Truman Burbank is a touchingly gallant creating, an unwitting Odysseus on an odyssey he can't fathom." - 06/17/2011 Wall Street Journal


"Even though Truman’s scripted life seems perfect, Peter Weir uses its cookie-cutter conformity to illustrate a disturbing world frozen in time." - 04/18/2020 The Atlantic

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