Truman Burbankhas the perfect life- except it's all part of a successful "reality" TV show- which he gradually comes to realize!

Rating: 9/10 (10 August 2005)

Truman Burbank leads an every day sort of life- he and his wife Merril live in beautiful, idyllic Seahaven Island, where she is a nurse and he is an insurance broker. But it's actually all part of a large TV show, everyone but Truman is an actor, and the city and buildings are all sets. Truman was born on live TV and his every moment is carried live to millions. Then after a few "glitches" he starts to suspect-- that he is being watched! Simply put, a masterpiece! Who hasn't at some time felt that we were being watched? Paranoid, or are we on TV? Jim Carrey's performance of Truman still ranks among his best- and that covers a lot of ground! Even people who aren't Carrey fans agree that his Truman Burbank is a fantastic piece of work. It's also fun seeing the "goofs" that are posted at IMDb and elsewhere- how can they be goofs-they're all scripted into a TV show? What a work of genius, the story of a man whose every moment of life was broadcast to millions. In a way, it was predictive of the future, today seven years later, with the multitudes of "reality" TV shows! This "original"reality show is even better than when I first saw it. Time has actually raised it from a work of art to a masterpiece