Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life is ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1998 | Running Time: 102 minutes
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Blu-Ray Disc
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Recalling such satires of TV mania as Network (1976) and Real Life (1979), Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998) takes aim at the consumers and creators of the ultimate TV celebrity-victim. Shooting from a number of "hidden camera" angles as Truman Burbank goes about his day, Weir blends the eponymous TV show with the film, complete with a "making of" documentary. With the perfection of the Seahaven "set" evincing a Twilight Zone creepiness, Truman's life is both banal family drama and sitcom, yet ...more
- Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
- Laura Linney - Meryl
- Ed Harris - Christof
- Noah Emmerich - Marlon
- Natascha McElhone - Lauren/Sylvia
- Holland Taylor - Truman's Mother
- Brian Delate - Truman's Father
- Una Damon - Chloe
- Paul Giamatti - Control Room Director
- Philip Baker Hall - Network Executive
- Peter Krause - Lawrence
- John Pleshette - Network Executive
- Heidi Schanz - Vivien
- Blair Slater - Young Truman
- Peter Weir - Director
- Lynne Pleshette - Executive Producer
- Andrew Niccol - Producer
- Adam Schroeder - Producer
- Scott Rudin - Producer
- Ed Feldman - Producer
- Andrew Niccol - Screenwriter
- Richard L. Johnson - Art Director
- Howard Feuer - Casting
- Richard Luke Rothschild - Co-producer
- Marilyn Matthews - Costume Designer
- Alan B. Curtiss - First Assistant Director
- Michael J. McAlister - Second Unit Director
- Lee Smith - Editor












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