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The Truman Show
Starring: Jim Carrey Directed by: Peter Weir Rated PG Original Release Year: 1998 Genre: Drama Synopsis: An insurance salesman begins to doubt reality when he figures out his life is a television show. My Thoughts: I am not a big Jim Carrey fan. Plain and simple. But this movie was different, I was very impressed with the way everything went and this movie just had an overall great feel to it. Scorecard Acting- Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank a focus of a television show that he knows nothing about. The creator of the television show is played by Ed Harris, both Carrey and Harris both do excellent jobs in their characters and I cannot find anything to complain about the acting from anyone in this film. (1) Direction- Peter Weir has done some big name movies (master and commander, witness just to name a couple) but this is the film that I believe he did some of his greatest directing. Everything just went right with this film, the actors gave solid performances, the story flowed very nicely, the film was directed to where everyone wanted to see it go, just a great job from Weir. (1) Story- I loved the premise of this movie. An orphan is adopted by a television studio and is raised on television for his whole life, and never knows any other world but the one he is living in, then suddenly he begins to question what is going on, and he soon figures out that everything in his world revolves around him. Great story. (1) Expectations- Like I said earlier, I am not a huge fan of Jim Carrey, so I really didn't have all that high of expectations for this film, when I finally did see it I was very surprised at the depth of the movie and the acting ability that Carrey actually has deep down inside of him. (1) Boring?- This is the one that is the killer for the perfect score. While there were not tons of boring parts to it, there were parts that were getting repetitive and it hurt the quality of the film. It was not incredibly bad, but it was noticeable enough to hurt the rating. (1/2) Final Score: 4 1/2 out of 5 Final Thoughts: This movie was a sleeper. I loved everything about this movie, and even if you aren't a Jim Carrey fan like me, you would most likely love this movie too. It tells a great story, has some laughs, and have some sad parts too. If you have not seen this movie, I whole heartedly suggest you go to your local video store and rent it, or better yet, click on the amazon link above and buy it, it is worth it, you wont regret it.
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