Pre-empting reality show successes like BIG BROTHER and THE X-FACTOR, Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW was a then-ground-breaking drama, focusing on whether an individual’s own life could be fascinating to the world through a lens.
Truman (Jim Carrey in one of his best-ever roles) is the naive insurance salesman who seemingly goes through life thinking that everyone in his world is a real person…except that the world he lives in is a self-contained domed environment conveniently staged and timed to coincide with his key movements, controlled from on high by Chief Station Controller Christof (Ed Harris, THE ROCK, THE RIGHT STUFF)
It ranks as one of the most haunting and thought-provoking movies of the 1990s – if not all time – and will make you think about your own reality.