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Peter Weir

The Truman Show

Director Peter Weir Composer Burkhard Dallwitz Cast Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
103' - 1998 - Drama, Comedy - Dialogue: English
A fable about a man whose entire life, unbeknownst to him, is the subject of a popular, 24-hours-per-day TV show. Day 10,909 in the life of Truman Burbank : married to Meryl, Truman lives in the immaculate planned community of Seahaven, an antiseptic island “paradise” where people are forever cheery and nothing untoward ever happens. The only scar Truman carries with him comes from the long-ago death of his father in a boating accident, which has given him an insurmountable fear of water. But the man also harbours a secret yearning, a wanderlust stimulated by his fleeting romance with Lauren, a beautiful student literally snatched from his embrace some years back and supposedly spirited away to Fiji, where he therefore longs to go…

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Credits

Directors

Peter Weir

Composers

Burkhard Dallwitz

Cast

Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney

Scenario

Andrew Niccol

Director of Photography

Peter Biziou

Editors

William M. Anderson, Lee Smith

Producers

Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Adam Schroeder, Edward S. Fledman

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

United States of America

Year

1998