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The Truman Show

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Summary

Satirical comedy drama starring Jim Carrey and Ed Harris. Truman Burbank leads an idyllic life in a perfect town, but what he doesn't know is that since birth his every move has been part of an intricately orchestrated television show.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Scripted by Gattaca's director/screenwriter Andrew Niccol and flawlessly executed by director Peter Weir, this ingenious satirical comedy drama about media omnipotence is both dazzling and sophisticated from audacious start to poignant finale. In a role that reveals his dramatic range, Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, star of the world's most popular reality TV show, although he doesn't know it. Burbank thinks he lives in the idyllic island community of Seahaven, but it's just an elaborate set housed in a vast studio, and all his family and friends are really actors. How that realisation slowly dawns and spurs him on to find out what's real and what's fake in his emotionally confused universe is the stuff of ambitious cinematic brilliance. Carrey gives a suitably restrained performance, and he receives superlative support from Ed Harris (as the programme's creator, Christof) and Laura Linney (as Truman's "wife", Meryl).

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Cast

rolenameTruman BurbankJim CarreyChristofEd HarrisMerylLaura LinneyMarlonNoah EmmerichLauren / SylviaNatascha McElhoneTruman's motherHolland TaylorTruman's fatherBrian DelateControl room directorPaul GiamattiMike MichaelsonHarry ShearerNetwork executivePhilip Baker HallNetwork executiveJohn Pleshette

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rolenameDirectorPeter Weir

Details

Released on

1998-10-09

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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