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The Truman Show (1998) 8.1
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Reviews: 862 user | 203 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a T.V. show. Director:Peter WeirWriter:Andrew Niccol |
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In this movie, Truman is a man whose life is a fake one... The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. Until one day... he finds out everything. Will he react? Written by Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords:
hidden camera | simulated reality | controlled environment | innocence lost | fictional reality show |Taglines:
All the world's a stage... See more »Genres:
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Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
5 June 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Truman Show See more »Filming Locations:
Falls Lake, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$60,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$31,542,121 (USA) (5 June 1998)Gross:
£9,771,416 (UK) (27 November 1998)Company Credits
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Christof: We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life.
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Written and Performed by Philip Glass
Courtesy of Nonesuch Records
by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Trivia
It took 3 years from Peter Weir receiving his first copy of Andrew Niccol's script to the film's completion. See more »Goofs
An 8-ball that appears to be on Truman's desk (and then disappears) is in fact in a basket on a cart. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Christof: We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life.
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Crazy Credits
In the end credits, the cast is divided between Truman's World, Christof's World and The Viewers See more »Soundtracks
Living WatersWritten and Performed by Philip Glass
Courtesy of Nonesuch Records
by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Having been bandied about the release schedules for the best part of a year, Carrey's first semi-dramatic film finally got a UK release last October. He plays Truman Burbank, a vaguely unhappy insurance salesman in the perfect little seaside town of Seahaven. Following some strange occurrences, Truman starts to think that he is being watched. Little does he know that his entire life is secretly filmed, his town is a gigantic sound-stage, everyone he has ever known was an actor and that his every waking and sleeping second is broadcast around the world as a top-rated docu-soap.
Critics have been lavishing enormous praise on this movie since it opened in America last June, and probably rightly so because it is a superbly crafted piece of work. Weir's direction is outstanding, frequently viewing events from the point of view of hidden spy cameras, such as the one in Truman's car radio. One stunning shot has the town's main street full of motionless extras, waiting for Truman to turn the corner. Jim Carrey's performance has been singled out for particular praise, and though his acting is of a much higher standard that his usual comedy antics, it is not exactly Laurence Olivier. This said, an Oscar nomination would have been well deserved.
The setting of a chirpy small town from which escape is impossible echoes cult 60's series The Prisoner, but the balance of reality and poetry is much more restrained here than it was then. The opening credits are especially clever, using those of the actual `show' (e.g. Truman Burbank as Himself). There are, however, a few problems. The film is simply too short to adequately explore Truman's situation, and the character of Meryl, his `wife', disappears about half-an-hour from the end. This kind of slightly sloppy scripting was not something I expected from writer Andrew Niccol, whose previous film Gattaca, which he also directed, was such an immediate classic. Gripes aside, this is an extraordinary and highly original film that really is worth seeing several times to fully understand the director's message. It doesn't even matter if you never liked Jim Carrey before. You will now.