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Truman Show, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements and mild language
Starring
Jim Carrey,
Laura Linney,
Noah Emmerich,
Natascha McElhone,
Holland Taylor,
and
Ed Harris
Twenty-nine years ago, a baby boy was adopted by the OmniCam Corporation to become the subject of the most popular television show of all time. His name is Truman Burbank. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Fantasy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Niccol
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Weir
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 26, 1999
Video: January 26, 1999
Theatrical: June 5, 1998
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.

100
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.

100
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
That rare cinematic experience-a movie so close to pure perfection that it seems a shame to spoil it by even reading a review beforehand.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
An original, inspired piece of work.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Weir's offbeat directing makes the most of Andrew Niccol's inventive screenplay, which includes large doses of surprisingly sardonic satire aimed at today's entertainment trends.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I enjoyed The Truman Show on its levels of comedy and drama; I liked Truman in the same way I liked Forrest Gump--because he was a good man, honest, and easy to sympathize with.

100
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A miraculous movie. It will rattle both your head and heart

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream.

100
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A sunny-looking movie about the darkest paranoia.

100
Film.com
Sean Means
A brilliant and daring film.
100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Adventurous, provocative, even daring.

100
TNT RoughCut
Graham Verdon
An exhilarating, fascinating story about the amazing and horrifying depth we are sinking toward as we strain to raise the entertainment bar another notch.
100
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The Truman Show is a reminder of the Beckett theme. The screenplay by Andrew Niccol starts from something like Beckett's abstraction and reifies it with details of contemporary culture, then moves on into fantasy. [June 29, 1998]
90
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
The Truman Show is one of the films for which the '90s will be remembered, and it is not to be missed.

90
Time
Richard Corliss
Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.

90
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Achieves a kind of beauty through its overlaying enigmas, and Carrey.
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Funny... and the payoff is the most provocative Hollywood concoction in a while.

88
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
A crowd pleaser that caters to our horror of totalitarianism, our love of personal freedom, our belief - justified or deluded - that knowledge is a powerful tool and that access to information is a God-given right.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
A sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum.

80
Dallas Observer
Peter Rainer
The film is a nightmare but an oddly comforting one.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Carrey is a genius at registering the rage behind television's sunny smile, while Laura Linney excels as his wife.

80
Film.com
Robert Horton
A smart, engaging movie.
80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
An appealing, offbeat, one-hundred minute diversion for those who really are tired of monsters tearing down buildings and action heroes saving the world.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A cool indictment of television's near-irresistible pandering to the inner peeping tom.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The film is unfortunately about little more than its potentially mind-boggling plot and structure.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It's unusually provocative and challenging for a Hollywood movie and, surprisingly, allows the audience to piece things together without too much external direction.


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