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The Truman Show (1998)

PG | | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 June 1998 (USA)
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An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

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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>

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Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language | See all certifications »

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$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$31,542,121 (USA) (5 June 1998)

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$125,603,360 (USA) (9 October 1998)
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Trivia

Several deleted scenes make it clear that Louis (Marlon) truly does care about Truman and gives him a moment of redemption where he finds him during the search and lets him go. See more »

Goofs

In the boat after the storm, Truman has a rope going over his thigh. A second later it is tied around by a big knot. See more »

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[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 »

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Referenced in Flat Earth & Other Hot Potatoes: Episode #1.16 (2015) See more »

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Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major (K412), First Movement: Allegro
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Conducted by Nicholas McGegan
Soloist: Lowell Greer
Courtesy of Harmonia Mundi France
by arrangement with Source/Q
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Ashaming....
19 January 2005 | by (Germany) – See all my reviews

Ashaming that the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences has never realized what a brilliant actor Jim Carrey really is. The is no explanation for him not getting the Oscar for the Truman Show, there is no excuse for not even nominating him for The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. I like the academy Awards, most of the time it is a fair thing, but in that year it was a disaster. How else can you explain that in the year of Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line and of course The Truman Show the most boring and joyless film of all time Shakespeare in Love gets eight, I repeat, eight Oscars and the Truman Show gets none? I think it is because Jim has made so much Comedy, nobody really knows what tough work comedy means. It is ashaming that the Academy is sometimes still driven by outdated prejudices. For me, Jim Carrey is the greatest and most versatile actor in the world! And The Truman Show is The greatest performance by an actor I have ever seen on screen. Finished!


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