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Underappreciated classic: The Truman Show

Underappreciated classic: The Truman Show

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Rob Archer
Aug 03, 2013
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The Truman Show (1998) is an underappreciated classic with an utterly fantastic performance by Jim Carrey. A great thought-provoking story from Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) and directed by Peter Weir, it came out about the time I was breaking out of my own self-imposed false reality, so it really resonated with me in a deep way.

But one of the things that jum…

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