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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.
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.
Reviews. The Truman Show. Comedy. 104 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1998. Roger Ebert. June 5, 1998. 4 min read. “The Truman Show” is founded on an enormous secret that all of the studio’s advertising has been determined to reveal.
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 ...
At its core, “The Truman Show” is an allegory for the power of media and the manipulation of reality. The film explores the idea that our perception of the world is shaped by the media we consume and that we are often unaware of the ways in which we are being influenced.
