Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Truman Show’: A Fascinating Look at Privacy and Reality

Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank in “The Truman Show.” Paramount Pictures

PG | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 June 1998 (USA)

I’ve never been a huge fan of exaggerated or outrageous forms of comedy, not even of the screwball variety that was so popular in the 1930s and ’40s. I feel that if something is funny enough, it should be able to stand on its own and be subtle in its delivery, instead of relying on showy or overblown antics.