Truman Burbank
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Plot. Selected at birth and legally adopted by a television studio following an unwanted pregnancy, Truman Burbank is the unsuspecting star of The Truman Show, a reality television program filmed and broadcast worldwide, 24/7, through approximately five thousand hidden cameras.
Summaries. An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. Since birth, a big fat lie defines the well-organised but humdrum life of the kind-hearted insurance salesman and ambitious explorer, Truman Burbank.
One morning, a cinema light falls in front of his house but a subsequent radio broadcast explains it away by claiming that a plane flying overhead had been shedding parts. At work, Truman tries to make a secret phone call to Fiji looking for someone named Lauren or Sylvia Garland. He can't find her.
5 Jun 1998 · The Truman Show: Directed by Peter Weir. With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone. An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
5 Jun 1998 · Written by. Andrew Niccol. "The Truman Show" is founded on an enormous secret that all of the studio's advertising has been determined to reveal. I didn't know the secret when I saw the film, and was able to enjoy the little doubts and wonderings that the filmmakers so carefully planted.
Synopsis He doesn't know it, but everything in Truman Burbank's (Jim Carrey) life is part of a massive TV set. Executive producer Christof (Ed Harris) orchestrates "The Truman Show," a live ...
The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, an unwanted baby raised by a corporation inside a simulated television show revolving around his life, until he discovers it and decides to escape; additional roles are provided by Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor and Ed Harris.
