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The Truman Show, 1998
English
USA
Profile of The Truman Show
The Truman Show can be described as contemplative, clever, and stylized. The plot revolves around a TV show, voyeurism, and media satire. Its comic aspect comes from satire. The Truman Show's main genres are drama and comedy. In terms of style, it is a film in a film and is postmodernist. It is located in Hollywood. The Truman Show takes place in the 1990s. The movie has received attention for being original, a modern classic, and essential viewing.
Summary of The Truman Show
The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 June 1998 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
Cast and Crew
as Truman Burbank
as Christof
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
An original, inspired piece of work.
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- by: Edward Guthmann
Chicago Tribune
Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.
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- by: Michael Wilmington
Users Reviews
Reminiscent of a character in one of Kurt Vonnegut's ficticious Kilgore Trout novels, every human being in Truman's world is an actor. Everyone's in on the decades-long, televised prank except for Truman. If the film were only a commentary on the...
- 11.August.2009
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- by: moviemeh
- moviemeh rated this movie
0/10
Much of the plot behind The Truman Show is implausible. Impossible but completely forgivable, because this movie came out at the perfect time - right before the onslaught of reality TV. At the time, people didn't know what was coming - a closed...
- 22.March.2009
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- by: Matthew
- Matthew rated this movie
8/10Great
