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      PG Now Playing 1h 42m Comedy Drama TRAILER for The Truman Show: Trailer 1 List The Truman Show: Trailer 1 The Truman Show: Trailer 1 2:32 View more videos
      94% Tomatometer 162 Reviews 89% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings He doesn't know it, but everything in Truman Burbank's (Jim Carrey) life is part of a massive TV set. Executive producer Christof (Ed Harris) orchestrates "The Truman Show," a live broadcast of Truman's every move captured by hidden cameras. Cristof tries to control Truman's mind, even removing his true love, Sylvia (Natascha McElhone), from the show and replacing her with Meryl (Laura Linney). As Truman gradually discovers the truth, however, he must decide whether to act on it. Read More Read Less Now in Theaters Now Playing Buy Tickets

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      A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.

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      Elvis Mitchell Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com There are no surprises in The Truman Show, except that Weir and Carrey manage to keep the picture on course. Rated: 3/5 Feb 15, 2023 Full Review Terry Lawson Detroit Free Press This is acting that isn't, but Carrey doesn't let the two-way mirror throw him; his unreality becomes his only real truth. Rated: 3/4 Feb 14, 2023 Full Review Quentin Curtis Daily Telegraph (UK) It is really about freedom... and it is to our own enslavement that this powerful, brilliant, and profound film speaks. Feb 14, 2023 Full Review James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk a prophetic comedy of ideas that hit all too close to home in our media-savvy, television-obsessed, celebrity-enthralled times Rated: 4/4 Oct 8, 2023 Full Review Luke Buckmaster Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Thinking about The Truman Show in 2023, it’s clear the film—marvellously written by Andrew Niccol—was ahead of its time in some respects and doomed to be quickly dated in others. Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Armond White National Review Weir gave art-house slickness to screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s ponderous attack on television’s fraudulence and mass-audience cretins. Aug 4, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      joe m This MOVIE stinks!!! IT caused my ptsd to come right back horrid horrid man horrid. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/24 Full Review Average P Great concept, great script, perfectly cast and wonderfully directed. Right up there with "Groundhog Day" as an inspired comedy which also manages to be affecting and meaningful Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/23/24 Full Review Arid S This did affect me heavily, I felt so sorry for Truman, his life was so nihilistic, but then was it? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/22/24 Full Review Adrian T my new favorite movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Ulises A Have you felt paranoid schizophrenia? Well. This movie is just for you. This movie really makes you feel like your life is a movie. It makes you say "I'm literally me. Im the main protagonist and everyone of you are double actors" I think the massage of the film is to find a way to scape you monotonous life by making any destions and don't worry about the opinion of another people. You are you. Live you best life. Dint worry about the " What will they say" just be free Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/18/24 Full Review Charlie B its a good movie, but jim carry being in it was a little distracting 8.3/10 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/17/24 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating
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      Synopsis He doesn't know it, but everything in Truman Burbank's (Jim Carrey) life is part of a massive TV set. Executive producer Christof (Ed Harris) orchestrates "The Truman Show," a live broadcast of Truman's every move captured by hidden cameras. Cristof tries to control Truman's mind, even removing his true love, Sylvia (Natascha McElhone), from the show and replacing her with Meryl (Laura Linney). As Truman gradually discovers the truth, however, he must decide whether to act on it.
      Director
      Peter Weir
      Producer
      Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, Adam Schroeder
      Screenwriter
      Andrew Niccol
      Production Co
      Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 5, 1998, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 1, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $125.6M
      Runtime
      1h 42m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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