Jim Carrey Is Brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2015)

Jim Carrey plays it straight in "The Truman Show" and is superb.
Plot In A Paragraph: Truman Burbank (a brilliant Jim Carrey) an advertising salesman is totally unaware that his entire life is staged for a TV show
Ed Harris was rightly nominated for an Oscar for his work here, but how could the Academy ignore Jim Carrey here?? He is fantastic! Playing it straight and totally against type Carrey shines and gives a performance with an amazing amount of heart. Laura Linney does well as Meryl, Trumans wife while Natasha McElhone is a joy as Lauren/Sylvia and Holland Taylor is her usual brilliant self. Phillip Baker Hall offers solid support as does pretty much all the cast.
This movie is unfairly compared to "EdTV", while both deal with a man on TV 24 hours a day, they are totally different concepts and movies and should not be compared to each other.