The Truman Show (DVD)

I remember many years back now when I found The Truman Show tape cassette lurking around my household and decided to throw it in the VHS player knowing little about it other than the fact that the lead is played by Jim Carrey. This 1998 movie captured my imagination as it lives out a real-life Big Brother situation in feature length fashion, although now almost a decade on re-watching the movie hasn't been a bed of roses for me. In fact, having thought so highly of the movie when I was younger it was quite disappointing as I sat through the whole thing the other week. Is Jim Carrey a kids actor? Well not really, as I know people of all ages have enjoyed his performances ...  Read the complete review

The Truman show is a 1998 film. Main star is Canadian actor Jim Carrey. He plays Truman. Synopsis Truman lives in a peaceful suburban town. Life could never get any better. He has a girlfriend and trustworthy friends. Truman is in his 20’s. He dreams of taking a holiday. On the surface of it everything is fine, however Truman’s suspicions grow as he is frustrated, he can’t go on holidays, he sees his dead father walking, falls in love with a girl called Lauren, she tells him things which increase his suspicions. The plot thickens as Truman is thwarted from leaving the town. My opinion The Truman Show is a significant ...  Read the complete review

The Truman Show was acclaimed as a highly imaginative and original philosophical blockbuster, that validated Jim Carrey's career and should have won Oscars. Well, like most original philosophical blockbusters of the last few decades, they nicked the idea from Philip K. Dick. Even if they didn't acknowledge the fact that the plot is massively analogous to Dick's 'Time Out of Joint' (right down to the significance of the moon). But never mind. The trailer for the Truman Show excited me more than any other I had ever seen until that point. The hints at metacinematic commentary and Dickian ideas scattered liberally throughout (God characters, ...  Read the complete review

It?s funny how sometimes the smallest things stick in your memory. I can still, all these years on, remember the first time I saw ?The Truman Show?. It was with my mother and we were at the cinema at Lakeside in West Thurrock. I don?t remember the date, or even why we?d gone to Lakeside in the first place, but I remember we decided to see a film on a whim, and this was our eventual choice. I suspect part of the reason I remember is because in all my (nearly) thirty years, I have only seen two films at the cinema with only my mother for company. The other was ?E. T.?, and I remember ...  Read the complete review

--THE TRUMAN SHOW-- The Truman Show was released in 1998. Directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Natasha McElhone. - BBFC Rating: PG - Genre: Fantasy/Comedy/Drama. - Running Time: 103 Minutes. - Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is a man who has grown up in, and is now living his life unawares, within a reality TV programme. Hand chosen from five unwanted babies, he is legally adopted by the television company. Truman is then placed in the specially constructed set ready for the unveiling of the groundbreaking reality show. Killing his father off within the programme by a 'staged' boating accident ...  Read the complete review