The Truman Show A 6/6/1998 3:45pm Secaucus Jim Carrey gives the best performance of his life in this film about a man who is unaware that he lives inside of a TV show. Inspired by MTV's "Real World" and the jennicam, The Truman Show is TV's most popular program. Truman is unaware that his home and town are covered by 5000 hidden cameras. Some people are trying to get through to him, to help him escape, to make him aware that he's trapped. Meanwhile as luck would have it, after thirty years, the show (a city inside a very large dome) is developing infrastructure problems, giving him the clues he needs that something is not quite right. Throughout the film there are many places where I cheered and laughed, it was great entertainment. The only problem with the film is that I wanted it to go on longer. Dirty Work A- 6/21/1998 7:30pm Guttenberg Norm Macdonald, formerly of Saturday Night Live, teams up with a couple other folks from SNL and gives us a hilarious slapstick comedy about a man who starts up a "revenge" business in order to quickly raise $50,000 for his pal's father's heart transplant. The humorous style of Macdonald is practically identical to his SNL news routine, so it's not a very original film. However, it is definitely funny, and some of the humor is rather sick in places, so if you're not into that kind of thing, you'd be better off staying home and playing bridge. Out of Sight B+ 6/27/1998 6pm Chelsea George Clooney stars as an extremely charismatic bank robber, who bumps into a lovely federal marshall while escaping from prison, and falls in love. It's a very charming story, with some excellent casting. Michael Keaton does a cameo at one point, and it looks like he just walked off the set from Jackie Brown, which I found very amusing. The story is a little complex and weaves back and forth with flashbacks, which confused about half of the audience. Overall it's a very good "feel-good" date flick, or amusing in its own right, but not as excellent as many of the critics have raved.