The Truman Show

1998 • 102 minutes
4.5
1.5K reviews
94%
Tomatometer
PG
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

He's the star of the show--but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) about a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering like few film stories ever have.
Rating
PG

Ratings and reviews

4.5
1.5K reviews
BixLives32
March 9, 2023
A product review is intended to help a potential customer determine if they will patronise the product. Only one reviewer was able to collect, organise and write their thoughts so that I can understand them. I found the others to be irrelevant, confused & semi-literate. One review is particularly disturbing. The writing is disjoint, meandering & larded with nonsensical pseudo science. The reviewer appears to be a person suffering from psychological dysfunction.
Emma Lin (PelicanFanatic30nNerdy)
March 2, 2023
I found this film just plain creepy and unsettling that a guy's entire life is one huge lie and that he is living in a TV show all about him. It can upset viewers who get easily triggered by this kind of subject matter and cause paranoia in some cases.
Roxy W.
February 26, 2017
I don't know why people think Jim Carrey is so funny. He's not and any movie with him in it is not worth watching. He tries too hard to be funny and it's obnoxious 😏
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