Fresh
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Overview
An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.
Director and cast
- Peter Weir Director
- Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank
- Laura Linney as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
- Noah Emmerich as Marlon
- Natascha McElhone as Lauren / Sylvia
- Ed Harris as Christof
- Holland Taylor as Truman's Mother
- Brian Delate as Truman's Father
- Blair Slater as Young Truman
- Heidi Schanz as Vivien
- Ron Taylor as Ron
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Fresh
Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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