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]
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Reviews for The Truman Show
The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
07/12/02
The biggest star here is director Weir in this bold and beautiful tour de force.
01/01/00
Las secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.
06/05/04
A good, intelligent, insightful movie...
04/27/07
Top CriticA 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
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.
09/11/05
Witty and manipulative, the movie doesn't answer the questions it poses. But it does let you leave feeling all right...
01/01/00
A deliciously vicious and intelligent satire. Jim Carrey is great as the man caught in the middle and Ed Harris is suitably evil as his tormentor.
01/01/00
For the first time in years, we are confronted with a movie that is so original and so intriguing that you wonder why no one had thought it up before.
01/01/00
...benefits substantially from Jim Carrey's unexpectedly layered (and flat-out moving) performance.
01/17/09
The smartest, funniest, most original Hollywood movie in ages.
01/01/00
A little miracle of 1990s Hollywood that deserves more praise and more audience today than it had a few years ago.
04/12/04
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