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The Truman Show
Directed by
Peter Weir
PG
1998
1h 43m
Comedy
,
Drama
8.2
94%
89%
8.2
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In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
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Cast of The Truman Show
Jim Carrey
Truman Burbank
Laura Linney
Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
Noah Emmerich
Marlon / Louis Coltrane
Natascha McElhone
Lauren Garland / Sylvia
Holland Taylor
Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
Ed Harris
Christof
Paul Giamatti
Simeon
Brian Delate
Walter Moore / Kirk Burbank
Peter Krause
Lawrence
Blair Slater
Young Truman
Heidi Schanz
Vivien
Una Damon
Chloe
Krista Lynn Landolfi
Bar Waitress
O-Lan Jones
Bar Waitress
Ron Taylor
Ron
Don Taylor
Don
Ted Raymond
Spencer
Harry Shearer
Mike Michaelson
Jeanette Miller
Senior Citizen
Philip Glass
Keyboard Artist
The Truman Show Ratings & Reviews
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elvis Mitchell
There are no surprises in The Truman Show, except that Weir and Carrey manage to keep the picture on course.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
This is acting that isn't, but Carrey doesn't let the two-way mirror throw him; his unreality becomes his only real truth.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A bold, powerful, reverberant fantasy that nails the zeitgeist with enough thematic richness to carry us into and beyond the millennium.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
The entire movie is a dazzlingly executed conceit that plays expertly on our sense of media manipulation.
Associated Press
Frazier Moore
Inventive and riveting, it shows us more than the adventures of an unlikely champion. It shows us ourselves.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
The Truman Show is built on an interesting concept. But the director and writers don't do enough to develop the concept.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
[A] masterfully executed cautionary tale... Yet there's something missing here: While Weir delivers both sharp wit and gentle poignancy, Truman's end catharsis needs greater emotional heft.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
The Truman Show will probably be the most thought-provoking "big" movie to come out this summer, and that says a whole lot more about other movies than it does about this one. You should, however, see it for Carrey's newly unveiled charms.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
In the end, Weir's movie is more a capitulation than a challenge to television, and a vulgar one at that. Truman turns out to be more Burbank than he is True-man.
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
The Truman Show is a movie and the name of a television show within the movie, both of which star Jim Carrey. This tidy little metaphysic is superbly maintained throughout Peter Weir's flawlessly executed film.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The important thing is that Carrey and the filmmakers have taken pains to give Truman that soul -- which, in itself, provides a kind of depth. In any case, it gets you to care about how it's going to end.
Slate
David Edelstein
The movie might have been a soulless exercise without [Carrey]. With him, it has an authentic tremulousness, and also a dread, as if Pinocchio needed to take on Gepetto and Jiminy Crickett to become a real boy.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a satire/comedy/fantasy about the future of television and the people caught in its omnipresent electronic net: a supremely intelligent jape about a man named Truman Burbank.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Weir keeps things fairly entertaining, and is admirably not afraid to veer more toward drama than comedy, but his film, like the world it portrays, is all surface.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Carrey is on his mettle, but you wonder why thirty years of close observation have made Truman so funny; shouldn't he be a regular guy gone mad?
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