Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
- escape
- paranoia
- dystopia
- dark comedy
- suspicion
- video surveillance
- deception
- hidden camera
- simulated reality
- television producer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jim Carrey
Truman Burbank
Laura Linney
Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
Noah Emmerich
Marlon / Louis Coltrane
Natascha McElhone
Lauren Garland / Sylvia
- Holland Taylor — Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
- Ed Harris — Christof
- Paul Giamatti — Simeon
- Brian Delate — Walter Moore / Kirk Burbank
- Peter Krause — Lawrence
- Blair Slater — Young Truman
- Heidi Schanz — Vivien
- Una Damon — Chloe
- Krista Lynn Landolfi — Bar Waitress
- O-Lan Jones — Bar Waitress
- Ron Taylor — Ron
- Directed
- Peter Weir
- Written
- Andrew Niccol
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 20,781 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
