A hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire which also allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy.
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12/14/08
The Truman Show (1998)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:91
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.2/10
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Comic actor Jim Carrey plays it (mostly) straight for this smart satire from director Peter Weir (DEAD POETS SOCIETY). The life of Truman Burbank (Carrey) has been broadcast around the world with... [More]
Reviews for The Truman Show
Top CriticOne movie you can pronounce a modern classic with absolute confidence.
06/24/06
Top CriticA masterpiece of art, comedy, perfect acting and pure uplifting emotion.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt is one of the best films ever made about the dangers of mass-media...
01/01/00
The intimations of profundity, of reality perceived, mediated, and processed, are milked for heavy irony rather than enlarging complexit.
08/24/05
Some of us may go out wishing for something meatier, edgier.
08/05/07
This is a profound movie for people who don't like to think, or perhaps for people who are in the media and of the media, and can't imagine any life outside it.
08/07/04
The biggest star here is director Weir in this bold and beautiful tour de force.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Top CriticThe result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
07/12/02
Top CriticLas secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.
06/05/04
A good, intelligent, insightful movie...
04/27/07
A crowd pleaser that caters to our horror of totalitarianism, our love of personal freedom, our belief - justified or deluded - that knowledge is a powerful tool and that access to information is a God-given right.
01/01/00
This inspired movie is possibly the best - and most layered - summer picture in years.
01/01/00
A thought-provoking, original movie that works on many levels.
01/01/00
In real life, most of us agree the Truman Burbank reality would never be allowed. Yet we probably wouldn't deny that some day, the way things are going, a variation on it just might occur.
01/01/00
Just a little too pleased with its own abrupt resolution to be completely satisfying.
09/25/03
Weir presents The Truman Show as a fairy tale, not an Orwellian nightmare
01/01/00
The conception is so audacious and inventive that the movie winds up doing something genuinely radical: it bores through the boundaries of our entire media-saturated culture.
01/01/00
As it stands, it's still good, but it just doesn't live up to its own hype.
01/01/00
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