Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 38 wins & 66 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
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To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
18 Aug 2014
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The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug 2014
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Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
18 Aug 2014
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The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.
– Jami Bernard,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug 2014
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One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.