The Truman Show

Movie • 1998

8.2

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    Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.

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Roger Ebert

I enjoyed "The Truman Show" on its levels of comedy and drama; I liked Truman in the same way I liked Forrest Gump--because he was a good man, honest, and easy to sympathize with.

rogerebert.com/reviews/the-truman-show-1998

Hollywood Reporter

A satire of Orwellian proportions, Peter Weir’s The Truman Show is a cleverly conceived, masterfully executed cautionary tale.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/truman-show-review-1998-movie-1195488/

The Guardian

Peter Weir’s film is so cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed that it almost seems like a fresh thought.

theguardian.com/film/1998/oct/09/1

Variety

A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision, 'The Truman Show' amusingly and convincingly presents a nuclear community as a vast television studio.

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Reelviews Movie Reviews

For those who bemoan Hollywood's consistent lack of originality (as I frequently do), The Truman Show is a welcome surprise.

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Common Sense Media

This is an amazing movie and one of Jim Carrey’s best (and cleanest) in my opinion.

commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-truman-show

IMDb

The point (the media and its destructive powers) is subtly relayed through dark humor, and you don't feel like the director is smashing you over the head with his morals.

imdb.com/title/tt0120382/

cinematerial.com

The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.

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