Rotten Tomatoes® Score
94%
89%
PG | 1h 42m | Comedy, Drama
Truman Burbank (Carrey) is the unknowing star of a hugely popular 24-hour, real-life TV show. His town is a camera-rigged set, his wife and friends actors, the sky above his head a planetarium-like simulacrum.
We learn the truth about Truman's strange universe a third of the way into the film, when a TV commentator (Harry Shearer) interviews Christof (Ed Harris), the show's megalomaniacal creator-director, who supervises every detail of Truman's life from a huge broadcast control room.
Having been born into this, Truman is happily oblivious until he witnesses a few production gaffes and becomes obsessed with a dead-on conspiracy theory.
He longs to see the world outside the idealized suburbia of Seahaven; his wanderlust is epitomized by his memories of Sylvia (Natascha McElhone), a girl he met in his years at Seahaven University, who was subsequently removed from the show's cast for trying to tell Truman the truth.
Director: | Peter Weir |
Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
Producer(s): | Scott Rudin, Edward Feldman |
Cast: | Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Harry Shearer, Una Damon, Blair Slater, Fritz Dominique |
Writer(s): | Andrew M. Niccol |
Official Site: | www.truman-show.com |