The Truman Show
- IMDb link: 0120382
- IMDb rating: 8.2 (1,368,811 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama
- Director: Ed Harris, Peter Weir
- Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone, Noah Emmerich and others
- Release date: 5 Jun 1998
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: hidden camera, simulated reality, fictional reality show, paranoia, controlled environment, deception, video surveillance, god complex, small town, dystopia
Plot:
Truman Burbank is a normal man, living in a normal town. He grew up to be a desk clerk for a insurance company, living an ordinary life, having an ordinary wife, an ordinary neighbour and an ordinary bud, who pops in from time to time with a sixpack. But Truman is not happy with his life. He wants to see the world. He wants to get away from his happy-happy, ever tidy, nice'n'shiny little island town at the seaside. In reality, Truman was an unwanted pregnancy. His "father", Christof, a reckless TV-Producer whom he never met, made up the Truman Show - the greatest show on earth - a show in which life is live. So, everyone around poor Truman is an actor with a little headphone in the ear. One day, Truman accidentally bumps into a catering area backstage and gets pretty suspicious. His plan now is: Pretend to be sleeping and steal away...