Smile, you're on-- I said smile, not guffaw.

Rating: 8/10 (2 March 1999)

Yes it's Jim Carrey's best movie, but why does he insist on throwing in those (thankfully few) muggy faces. And why did Peter Weir let him? Otherwise an engaging light comedy that plays off the Twilight Zone-esque premise that one's entire life is simply someone else's experiment. Weir abstains from making this a one-joke film by carefully shifting control back and forth between the mad documentarian (Ed Harris) to Truman (Carrey). The supporting cast is hardly spectacular, but they're all supposed to be TV actors, right?