The Movie: The 1998 movie revolves around Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), a man who is unknowingly the star of a reality TV show which documents every waking moment of his life to the entire world. He resides within the world's largest movie studio, and everyone he's ever met is a paid actor. The Release: The Truman Show has been deemed "eerily prescient" by countless critics and commentators, because it arrived in the summer of 1998, little more than a year before the reality TV boom kicked off with Big Brother, Survivor and so on. Had the film been released after these shows gained prominence, it wouldn't have been nearly as effective, but in appearing to "predict" a major media trend, The Truman Show essentially immortalised itself as a soothsayer of TV's unsavoury "decline".