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The Truman Show [Blu-ray]

Jim Carrey (Actor), Paul Giamatti (Actor), Peter Weir (Director) Rated:

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Format	Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Peter Krause, Peter Biziou, Brian Delate, Blair Slater, Paul Giamatti, Natascha McElhone, Philip Glass, Una Damon, John Pleshette, Peter Weir, Philip Baker Hall, Holland Taylor, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey, Heidi Schanz, Laura Linney, Ed Harris See more
Language	English, French, Spanish
Runtime	1 hour and 43 minutes

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He's the star of the show--but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) about a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering like few film stories ever have.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Weir
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ December 30, 2008
Actors ‏ : ‎ Jim Carrey, Paul Giamatti, Philip Baker Hall, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001GMH8TM
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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The Truman Show continues to bring enjoyment - perhaps more in our social media times

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2022

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So the question might be, would The Truman Show even work anymore? In a world where anyone at any and all times can put their lives on public display, does The Truman Show offer anything unique? In its time it seemed like a powerful lesson in privacy and personal autonomy (another lesson in there these days).

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A guy is born an orphan, adopted by a corporation, and put on TV - in a completely fictional, made up, built world - to be raised and put on display for the world to watch.

We come in when Truman is an adult, with flashbacks to how we got here, showing us that he is the only one “not in on the joke.” This is his world and everything he does is 100% natural - psychology telling us that people act differently when they are being watched (recorded). So as this “world” he lives in reacts and dwell around him, everything he does is 100% him. He is now married, has a mother - his father plays an important role - and his best friend. But... in his boring life (insurance salesmen take the hit here), things start to seem... odd for Truman. He starts noticing things that aren’t... right. And when he realizes everyone is watching him and taking about him and an elevator isn’t real.... Go! Truman is off and running to figure out what is happening.

He still loves a girl from college. He and his wife are... not compatible - because, you know, decide that for the guy. And his best buddy is always there, but... We could talk about the lessons, but that’s up to the viewer. When the “creator” of the show is interviewed, he tells us all the ways Truman is special and he loves the guy... we see the world watching (endlessly) and we (I) wonder... why is someone’s life so interesting when all they are doing is living it?

Then again, ours is now a world where watching people live is “a thing.”

Jim Carrey is great as Truman. Sure, he has his over the top Carrey moments, but it gives Truman some level of depth - read that insurance salesman thing again - and this completely boring, simple man’s life comes to life (you’ve likely seen the image of Carrey looking in the mirror playing astronaut. He gives Truman the simple heart and hope that we come to love and cheer for. All the supporting actors - in on the joke - round out this world in a way that makes us wonder about the people in our lives...

In the end Truman discovers the truth and makes and real, definitive decision for himself. And perhaps the greatest move of the movie is the moment he does that and we are let wondering, will Truman be happier in the real world making his own decisions in a life that doesn’t care or protect him, or will he wish to have his old life back...?

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Pure family!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2022

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Family and makes you wander if it's true. Only one way to find out! I recommend watching it! You'll enjoy it!

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Shane McKee

Holds up! Even better than I remembered

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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My girlfriend had never seen it, and this is now a favorite

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Alexander Drexler

Amazing and Profound. Maya from Eastern Religion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2022

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Great Film!!

In Eastern Religion, the concept of ‘Maya’ is used often, or the universal illusion. This film personafies that concept very well from this perspective. Although he thinks he is living in the ‘Real World’, come to find out it’s all a stage.
By the way science is now saying the same with much of the recent developments in quantum physics.

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Elizabeth bailey

Love

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2022

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Great movie!

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Jessica James

Re Watch, Better the 2nd Time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2022

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I just need to re-watch everything with my husband. It is a must. Plus, I feel I like to see how time has changed, media has pushed ideas on society, influenced decisions, thoughts, actions, activities and development. It is thought provoking to watch movies even from a few years ago.

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Tirinda Hixon

Classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2022

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Need I say more?

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Rebecca L. Jarboe

Truly an important film for todays world

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2022

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This film shows exactly how the corporate world would look in a dystopian future

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CLEVER, TIMELY AND FUNNY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2018

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Truman Burbank appears to be living the perfect all-American life, completely unaware that everything he says and does is broadcast live, via a huge network of hidden cameras, as part of a “real-life”, 24/7, voyeuristic soap opera.

Disturbingly, his whole world from birth has been fake: effectively, an enormous hi-tech film set populated by paid actors and extras that even includes Truman’s own family.

However, he becomes increasingly tired and suspicious of his “virtual” existence - and so-called “friends” - in a phoney, shallow world that’s financed by sponsored ads and controlled by an exploitative, megalomaniac super-geek.

Exactly how I felt before I deleted my Facebook account.

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Deep reflecting on the reality of the world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2020

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* Brief synopsis

An ordinary man (Jim Carrey), somewhere in the contemporary USA, has a routine life, but he beings to find an undercurrent of conspiracy against him.

* Comment

This film is about a man whos an unwitting star of a show about his life with hundreds of people in on it. Truman breaks his pleasant lifestyle when he slowly becomes aware of his shifting world viewpoint with a deep but rather dry, academic version of what could be described as paranoid schizophrenia symptoms. This questioning of his world and conspiracy explanations behind this is a sign, coupled with a few trigger situations to support this in his mind, of this condition. His dad rediscovered, the hearing of radio following his driving, the truth of characters walking about his home, is clear from his viewpoint.

The fact he knows nothing about the life he's had for 30 or so years and becoming aware of this world focusing on everything he does, stresses his mind and temporarily overwhelms him. I won't say the ending but its deep too.

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Jay

Top film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 17, 2020

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I forgot how good this film was and it is kind of a reminder of what life is like in the current climate!

Truman is a show based on the life of a guy who was put into this show as a baby and has been followed right through life to where he is now as an adult. However, he starts to get suspicious about his life and where he lives and things with the production start to go wrong. He continues to pursue these events and comes to the conclusion that things are not as they seem.

I am not going to give the rest of the film away suffice it to say it is worth watching. This is Jim Carrey at his best and his perfomance is brilliant. Well worth the watch.

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M. Hadfield

I love this film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 12, 2019

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I think this is my third time of watching this film, and I enjoyed it as much as the first. I love the concept of someone growing up in a fake reality (The Matrix took this idea a good few steps further). I don't like very many of Jim Carrey's films and this is one of those where he shines without any of the zaniness that he is associated with.
This is about someone who is lost and whose life is directed from outside - even to the extent he has been programmed to avoid exploring those experiences which might reveal the truth. It's just clever and also so easy to relate to.
If you haven't seen it then I recommend watching it. If you have then maybe it's time to see it again.

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MEGAMARKJAMESGRANT

Carrey Is Great...That's About It.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 3, 2019

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This film is 21 years old and I only first watched it 2 days ago. I've seen virtually every Jim Carrey movie and I love lots of them but...The Truman Show? Hmmm, I'm undecided about this one.
There's no denying that Carrey's performance is wonderful, but the set-up is quite unbelievable and over the top. It is quite prophetic in that it's the first mainstream movie about the modern day Big Brother style surveillance. I felt quite sorry for Truman overall. The ending, in my own humble opinion, is a bit of a cop out.

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