Your birth year
2006
The Truman Show
1998
The Truman Show is 8 years older than you
It's from 1998, before you were born.
- Director
- Peter Weir
- Genre
- Sci-fi drama
- Star
- Jim Carrey
- Released
- 1998
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About
As of 2026, it's 28 years old.
The Truman Show imagined a man whose entire life — every neighbor, every sunrise, his own wife — is a 24/7 television show built around him without his knowledge, and he's the only one who doesn't know. Years before reality TV took over, it predicted the whole thing with eerie precision.
Jim Carrey's restrained, poignant performance and the film's 'Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night' made it a thoughtful gem.
Clever, prophetic, and quietly moving, The Truman Show is the film that predicted our surveillance-and-spectacle age and made it heartbreaking.
