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About
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.
Theatrical
Jun 5, 1998
Box Office
$264.1M
Budget
$60.0M
Return
4.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 12, 1999
Theaters
1,592
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
Quotes
See all →Life as a Performance Stage
Taglines
The World is a Stage!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Uncertainty About the Conclusion
Taglines
How's it going to end?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
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Jim Carrey
Truman Burbank
L
Laura Linney
Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
N
Noah Emmerich
Marlon / Louis Coltrane
N
Natascha McElhone
Lauren Garland / Sylvia
H
Holland Taylor
Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
E
Ed Harris
Christof
P
Paul Giamatti
Simeon
B
Brian Delate
Walter Moore / Kirk Burbank
P
Peter Krause
Lawrence
B
Blair Slater
Young Truman
H
Heidi Schanz
Vivien
U
Una Damon
Chloe
O
O-Lan Jones
Bar Waitress
H
Harry Shearer
Mike Michaelson
J
Jeanette Miller
Senior Citizen
P
Philip Glass
Keyboard Artist
J
Joe Minjares
Bartender
P
Philip Baker Hall
Network Executive
J
John Pleshette
Network Executive
T
Terry Camilleri
Man in Bathtub
