28 Years Later, Jim Carrey's Most Unhinged Movie Performance of All Time Is Officially Free on Streaming

The 1998 Jim Carrey masterpiece predicted the century of reality TV and social media, but it has a deeper spiritual resonance Peter Weir’s 1998 satirical dramedy The Truman Show, which has just been inducted into the National Film Registry, is one of those rare works of science fiction that was hailed as prophetic very shortly after its release. It didn’t so much satirize its present or speculate on a far future as predict, with unnerving accuracy, what was just around the corner. The Truman Show is now streaming for free on Pluto TV. The movie, written by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) and directed by Weir (Dead Poets Society), is about a man named Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) who has unwittingly lived his entire life on a colossal TV sound stage, observed by hidden cameras 24 hours a day. His every step from infancy to adult life has been followed by an adoring global audience. Everybody in his life is an actor, every beverage is an opportunity for product placement, and the sky over his home island of Seahaven is painted on a vast dome. Behind the moon sits Christof (Ed Harris), the show’s godlike creator, micromanaging every detail of Truman’s existence. When The Truman Show was releas