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The Truman Show (1998)
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Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 78
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 8.3/10
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: Television
Synopsis: The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.... [More]
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A deceptively simple fairy tale; a hilariously subversive satire… and finally an elegant parable about truth and happiness with evocative religious resonances.
10/17/05
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
With the reality TV boom, it brings forth more thoughts as to whether our society could ever be this extreme, and with each viewing, its themes deepen.
08/28/05
The intimations of profundity, of reality perceived, mediated, and processed, are milked for heavy irony rather than enlarging complexit.
08/24/05
[A] hugely entertaining dramatization of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"...a fable that would be relevant 50 years earlier and no doubt will remain relevant 50 years hence.
08/21/05
Jim Carrey gets in touch with his Jimmy Stewart side. There's a humanity here... that we haven't seen before.
06/25/05
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04/09/05
This is clearly one of the decade's cleverest, most original pictures.
02/04/05
Truman has been wronged, and it is thrilling to see him strive to escape a machine built by a compassionless and egomaniacal creator.
01/15/05
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08/07/04
Top Critic If you expect and want to see the hyper-wacky Carrey...you'll hate it. If you expect and don't want to see the creepy Carrey as in the The Cable Guy, you'll be happier.
06/28/04
Las secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.
06/05/04
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