What if you discovered that your whole entire life was a lie, and that nothing you thought was real, was real?
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is living a pretty ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a good job, and no real conflict of any kind. What he does not know is that he is the main character in a television show. The place he believes to be his hometown is actually a television show set, built inside a huge dome by the Hollywood sign. Everyone he meets is an actor who has been hired to play a role in Truman’s life, even his wife and his parents. He has been on television every moment of his life since he was born.
He was adopted in utero by a television production company, run by a man named Christof. His birth, his first steps, his first day of school – all of it has been broadcast across the nation to millions of adoring fans who tune in every day to see what he’s up to. They all know it’s a set-up, everyone on the show knows it’s fake – everyone but Truman.
One day he starts to notice that things are a little bit odd. He finds a few glitches in the scenery and stumbles on to crew members taking lunch behind the scenes. His radio picks up a few moments of the producers talking to each other on their walkie-talkies, and he realizes that everything in his life isn’t as it has always seemed. With this in mind, he starts doing wild and unexpected things, catching the producers unaware and finding even more glitches.
This movie swings back and forth between being fabulously hysterical and deeply touching as we feel Truman’s pain at discovering that his entire existence has been a lie. We cheer with him as he fights the odds and works to establish his independence. With very little language, this PG-rated film was a sheer delight and I highly recommend it.
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