Truman Show (Special Collectors Edition) (1998)

Director: Peter Weir  Starring: Jim Carrey  Ed Harris  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Paramount
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097360309140
Buy.com Sku: 40718228
Item#: V24QVG
Category Keywords: Comedy  Television Personalities  Television Programs  Theatrical Release 
Rating: 
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen
 
He's the star of the show--but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) about a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering like few film stories ever have.
 
"It's unusually provocative and challenging..."  Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"The Truman Show is a marvelous movie!"  Newsweek
"This is clearly one of the decade's cleverest, most original pictures."  Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD

 


Editor's Note

The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.

 
Features
Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo
Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: The Making of The Truman Show And Faux Finishing: The Visual Effects of TheTruman Show
Interactive Menus
Photo Gallery
Previews
Scene Selection
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16:9 TVs
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 5/1/2007
Running Time: 102 minutes
Original Release Date: 1998
Catalog ID: 030914
UPC: 00097360309140
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
Anamorphic Widescreen  1.85:1

 
Cast & Crew
Ed Harris
Jim Carrey
Laura Linney
Noah Emmerich
Andrew Niccol - Writer
Burkhard Dallwitz, et. al. - Original Music By
Dennis Gassner - Production Designer
Edward S. Feldman, et. al. - Producer
Lynn Pleshette - Executive Producer
Peter Biziou - Cinematographer
Peter Weir - Director
William Anderson, et. al. - Editor

 
Awards

Oscar (1999)
   Ed Harris, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor
   Peter Weir, Nominee, Best Director
   Andrew Niccol, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

 
Professional Reviews
Total Film
"...[Carrey's] performance is simply spellbinding..." -- 5 out of 5 stars 10/01/1999 p.104

Rolling Stone
"...Carrey triumphs in a hilarious and heartfelt performance that reveals an uncommon sensitivity and grace..." 06/25/1998 p.99-100

Sight and Sound
"...Poignant and haunting....A moving exploration of creation-anxiety..." 10/01/1998 p.36-58

Entertainment Weekly
"...Niccol's witty script tunes into our hunger..." -- Rating: A 01/15/1999 pp.64-5

Los Angeles Times
"...Adventurous, provocative, even daring, THE TRUMAN SHOW has been directed with enviable grace and restraint by Peter Weir..."

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "1998's ingenious THE TRUMAN SHOW is a remarkable exercise in pre-emptively satirizing the reality TV phenomenon that it surely helped to inspire." 05/01/2006 p.150

James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
For those who bemoan Hollywood's consistent lack of originality...The Truman Show is a welcome surprise. Over the years, there have been many satires about the power of television, but none has taken this route. Director Peter Weir, whose past credits include Witness, Dead Poets Society, and Fearless, has wed this cautionary tale about media strength with a surprisingly affecting (if somewhat uneven) drama about one man's search for the meaning of life. - James Berardinelli
 
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
I enjoyed The Truman Show on its levels of comedy and drama; I liked Truman in the same way I liked Forrest Gump--because he was a good man, honest, and easy to sympathize with.

But the underlying ideas made the movie more than just entertainment. Like Gattaca, the previous film written by Niccol, it brings into focus the new values that technology is forcing on humanity.

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives--of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process. - Roger Ebert
 

 
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