The Truman Show (1998)
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Truman Burbank began life by being the chosen one of five unwanted babies to be the star of a documentary of the first year of life of a child. The program became so popular that it expanded into a continuously running reality television program. Contained within a completely artificial town called Seahaven, itself contained within a gigantic dome, the “Omnicomm Ecosphere”, Truman grows up as the only person in the town unaware that he lives in an almost solipsistic constructed reality for the entertainment of those outside. His friends, family, and wife are all actors following direction. His life-long best friend, Marlon, has been on the show since he was 7 years old.
The plot takes many ideas from Philip K. Dick’s 1959 novel Time Out of Joint, as well as the 1960 Twilight Zone episode “A World of Difference”, and the 1968 feature The Secret Cinema (later remade as an Amazing Stories episode in 1986).
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