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The Truman Show (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 82 Fresh: 78  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 8.3/10
 
Consensus: 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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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Synopsis: The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world. The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone

Director: Peter Weir
Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol
Producer: Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, Adam Schroeder
Composer: Wojciech Kilar

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 8, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 16.9

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - French

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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A masterpiece of art, comedy, perfect acting and pure uplifting emotion.

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01/01/00
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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03/31/08
David Ansen
Newsweek
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Some of us may go out wishing for something meatier, edgier.

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08/05/07
Rob Gonsalves
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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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12/06/05
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A deceptively simple fairy tale; a hilariously subversive satire… and finally an elegant parable about truth and happiness with evocative religious resonances.

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10/17/05
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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The movie and its themes have held up. For better or worse, we're a nation consumed by television, a country roped in by spectacle. Weir sees through it.

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09/11/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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5/5

With the reality TV boom, it brings forth more thoughts as to whether our society could ever be this extreme, and with each viewing, its themes deepen.

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08/28/05
Rory L. Aronsky
Film Threat
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The intimations of profundity, of reality perceived, mediated, and processed, are milked for heavy irony rather than enlarging complexit.

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08/24/05
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
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[A] hugely entertaining dramatization of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"...a fable that would be relevant 50 years earlier and no doubt will remain relevant 50 years hence.

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08/21/05
Peter Canavese
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Jim Carrey gets in touch with his Jimmy Stewart side. There's a humanity here... that we haven't seen before.

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06/25/05
Moriarty
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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This is clearly one of the decade's cleverest, most original pictures.

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02/04/05
Ross Anthony
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Truman has been wronged, and it is thrilling to see him strive to escape a machine built by a compassionless and egomaniacal creator.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
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08/07/04
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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If you expect and want to see the hyper-wacky Carrey...you'll hate it. If you expect and don't want to see the creepy Carrey as in the The Cable Guy, you'll be happier.

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06/28/04
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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Las secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.

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06/05/04
Alex Ramirez
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