A seemingly perfect paradise is created for the home of insurance salesman Truman Burbank, who unknowingly serves as the protagonist for an elaborate television production broadcasting his life to the world. Truman (Jim Carrey) serves as the ordinary guy—the “true man”—navigating the world presented to him by the creator, a shrewd television producer, Christof (Ed Harris), who quietly manipulates Truman from afar. Comically prophetic in its analysis and indictment of reality television, The Truman Show is an enlightening exploration of the gods of media and the religion of consumerism.
—Joel Mayward