The Truman Show GOLDEN GLOBES® 3X winner Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. The Truman Show : Directed by Peter Weir. With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone. An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show . The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy - drama movie. It is directed by Peter Weir and was written by Andrew Niccol. The movie shows the story of Truman Burbank, who does not know that he is living his whole life in a giant dome and is being recorded and shown as a live TV show . All his friends, family and community are actors who are paid to stop him from leaving and not say the truth to him. The movie stars Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Paul ... The Truman Show is a 1998 American psychological drama film [2] written and co-produced by Andrew Niccol, and directed by Peter Weir. The film depicts the story of Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey), a man who is unaware that he is living his entire life on a colossal soundstage, and that it is being filmed and broadcast as a reality television show which has a huge international following. All of his friends, family and members of his community are paid actors whose job it is to sustain ...