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Edtv (1999) -- Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.

Overview

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Director:
Ron Howard
Writers (WGA):
Émile Gaudreault (screenplay) &
Sylvie Bouchard (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 March 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Fame. Be careful. It's out there. more
Plot:
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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(10 articles)
Discuss: Ron Howard, H.P. Lovecraft and 'Gung Ho'
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Nearly nothing like the Truman Show. more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ed TV (USA) (poster title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sex-related situations, partial nudity and crude language.
Runtime:
122 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
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1.85 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
Rob Reiner's line "Go home, Gomer," is a reference to "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960) which featured a young 'Ron Howard'. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Ed and his family are discussing whether or not to do the show, the cap on the 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew appears and disappears between shots. more
Quotes:
Shari: He is a bad lay. And I mean *bad*. more
Movie Connections:
References O Efeito Ilha (1994) more
Soundtrack:
A Lot Of Livin' To Do more

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28 out of 37 people found the following comment useful:-
Nearly nothing like the Truman Show., 3 October 2001
Author: thedustball from Ventura, CA

It's a shame that due to the timing of when Edtv was released, it was automatically deemed a pitiful copy of the Truman Show, a movie that won our hearts the previous year. Now, I love the Truman Show too, very much, and I'll admit that I was was very uninterested in ever seeing a copy-cat version of it. It was until just a few weeks ago that I actually watched Edtv (even with the expectation that I would most likely not like it too much) and I must say I was pleasantly surprised!

Not only was Edtv funny and entertaining, but it was nearly nothing at all like the Truman Show. I mean, the ONLY similarity is the idea of a live TV show about an "ordinary" guy. But Truman didn't even know he was on TV. He was just living what he thought was an ordinary life. All the cameras and microphones were completely hidden and he lived in a town that was entirely fabricated from his wife and life-long best friend, to the rain and even the sun. His is a story of a man searching for an escape from his everyday life, which little by little he is realizing may not be what it seems. Ed on the other hand was a nobody who was chosen to have a camera crew actually follow him around all day while he went on about his life. His life, and in turn the show, became more about instant celebrity as viewers became enchanted in watching this loser become a mega-star over night. People flocked around him just as much to meet him as to be on TV themselves and he endured some major struggles in keeping his life and relationships normal, which was impossible with his celebrity status and on-camera life.

Both movies had a theme of America's fixation with TV, and more specifically Reality TV, but have different plots and overall themes altogether. I think Edtv was a very enjoyable movie and Mathew McConaughey and Jenna Elfman delivered fantastic performances. Not to mention the mind boggling, and I think underrated, job of editing such an enormous amount of footage. Considering that while the film cameras were rolling, the video cameras were rolling too, and just about all of the video footage you see was actually shot when you see it being shot, I think that Ron Howard did a great job of keeping track of it all and actually making it work. So when someone says, "Well, it was no Truman Show" they are absolutely right. I think it is a great movie that stands on it's own and should stand proud.

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