THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)

Cast

Plot

Arguably the most original, intelligent and entertaining movie to emerge from mainstream Hollywood in recent years, "The Truman Show" is a rare beast indeed. Imagine if your whole life had been orchestrated since birth, purely to line the pockets of a TV production company, whilst providing round-the-clock entertainment for the rest of the nation. For insurance salesman Truman Burbank (a revelatory Jim Carrey), this bizarre notion becomes an unbelievable reality when he realises that his entire existence is a set up, and his world no more than an enormous TV studio presided over by an executive with a God-complex. Satirical, sinister, unsentimental and hugely enjoyable. Miss it at your peril.