The Truman Show (1998)
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.
Watch Trailer
Free Trial Channels
Cast
Similar titles
Reviews
Who payed the critics
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
The Truman Show is Jim Carrey as you have never seen him before. This is straight out of The Twilight Zone(in fact writer Andrew Nicchol based the screenplay on an episode of The Twilight Zone. Jim Carrey plays an insurance salesman who has no idea that his entire life is scripted and part of a television show. This is a departure of sorts for Peter Weir also and though I have forgotten much of this film I remember liking it a lot. There are many underlying themes and the entire presentation is something you don't see often. This is a healthy recommendation regardless of whether you are a fan of Carrey or not.
This movie can be explained by quoting one of Nirvana song lyrics: "Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you."
An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show. The Truman Show has an interesting and very original idea for a story but the film is just not that very interesting for me as a whole. I mean sure Carrey does a good job but the movie was so damn slow that almost put me to sleep. The film is also a bit comedic, a bit dramatic and has some bits of sci-fi in it as well and all those things together in my opinion were kind of lackluster and just messy. I do understand why people love this film and why critics praised it as a whole but Jim Carrey has done way better films than this like Dumb and Dumber and The Mask and this is not on my list i'm afraid. (5.0/10)
I really liked the end and the plot but during the movie I thought it was a little bit cruel because it was very sad that Truman was taken away by Christof and it was very mean but the end changed it all.