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The Truman Show [Blu-ray]

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

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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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MPAA rating : s_medPG 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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Michael Griswold

The Truman Show saw the Future

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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The Truman Show is another one of those comedic-drama roles that Jim Carrey had in the late 1990s that moved him beyond his slapstick characters Dumb and Dumber, Mask, and Ace Ventura as he stars as Truman, a man specially chosen from birth to inhabit this fake world that appears perilously close to the United States during the 1950s. The catch is that he doesn’t know that his world is really the set of presumably the world’s most popular television show and his actions are determined/dictated by a manipulative executive producer type figure.

As I was watching the Truman Show, I couldn’t help but notice the parallels with today’s world, which has seemingly become saturated with reality television and this sort of fame cult. We are possibly coming very close to the line where something like the Truman Show isn’t as outlandish. Cameras are seemingly everywhere, “reality television” is everywhere and the line between real life and television and movies is becoming blurry.

A very good movie, but more than a little scary if you look beyond the face.

51 people found this helpful

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Surak

Important parable

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016

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A non-violent version of The Matrix. Entertaining story, out of character for Jim Carrey, but profound implications about the nature of life and reality. Enhanced by the score of Phillip Glass. Very thought provoking. This story should encourage you to question your priorities in life, and whether your values should be dictated by agreement with the masses on social media.

39 people found this helpful

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Scarlet

Your kid might like it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2020

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I have a teenager and I struggle to find movies that we both enjoy. One day he told me that he felt as if everything around him was fake. So purchased this movie. It's about Truman. He doesn't know his entire life has been filmed and everything and everyone around him is putting on show. My son actually liked the movie. It didn't take long for everything to unravel. Which is big for kids these days since they don't have the patience for movies that take a while to get to climax.
And If you're wondering, watching this movie didn't put my sons suspicions at ease. Pero, whatever. He'll live.

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Michael Neely

Messed up film in the most wonderful way

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017

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The film captures humanity's obsession with itself and complicates the boundaries a society is willing to cross by juxtaposing their own obsession; with humanities own rights being Paramount to the core values of our civilization. Then the question remains if he were compensated would that make it acceptable? Is it ok to rob a person of what makes them human if they are compensated, or is there something to be said about the sanctity of the human experience?

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WOW!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021

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This was by far the most fascinating movie I've ever seen. The manipulation, the intensity. It really show the human condition where innately we search for something outside of ourselves and no matter what the universe will move to meet that desire if we go after it. Christoff, as any corporation tends to do, protect itself by lying to the general public and uses power to manipulate this singular life. It's a battle of wills and I was on the edge of my seat.

Jim Carey put forth an excellent performance as he understood this character and the premise. This and his portrayal of the comedian Andy Kaufman were and are his best work.

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D. Dalton

Jim Carrey perfection

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2017

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"The Truman Show" is not the typical Jim Carrey movie. He displays a vast array of acting ability- dramatic, comedic, romantic- and does it all with absolute excellence. Carrey is able to do this within a superb storyline that is quirky and somewhat bizarre, but complex and unique. This film allows you to take a step back and think about what you see in the "real" world- some of it funny, some depressing, some outright maddening (that might include just plain stupid). Such is life. I could write a long essay or two about this film, but instead I will just add that the entire cast (including the minor roles) is the icing on a multi-layer movie that is absolutely excellent.

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O'Hara

Carrey at his finest

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016

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Jim Carrey takes a step outta the comedic role to play in this dramatic piece about a child born into the spotlight of reality TV without knowing his life is being filmed.
His town and everything and everyone in it are not real. His friends are paid actors and his life is fabricated all to make the biggest television project the worlds ever seen.
But Carreys character soon finds he wants to leave the town and explore the world so the town has to convince him otherwise.
He's compelled to leave anyway possible.
The truth is forced out of the production company that's imprisoned him in the blissful town.

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Erika S.

I love Amazon Prime

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021

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Amazon Prime doesnt have a lot of free shows and movies but the ones it does offer are great. Its almost as if they can read my mind. ill be in the mood to watch a certain type of movie and BOOM with little to no search the entertainment that fits my particular mood pops up in front of my eyes. I think to myself "Ive been wanting to see this movie but i can never find it on other streaming channels" Just like tonite. Im in quarantine and needed something easy on the eyes as well as the brain, something relaxing. The Truman Show was the perfect choice. I strongly suggest making the investment in Amazon Prime. It saves me so much money in many ways. It pays for itself within the first week.

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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.

15 people found this helpful

ab..c

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.

3 people found this helpful

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.

2 people found this helpful

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.

3 people found this helpful

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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