Edtv (1999)

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Studio: Universal Pictures Studio: Universal Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Mar 26, 1999
Running Time: 122 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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An avid tv watcher wins a contest and the following months in his life are chronicled by a camera crew, minute by minute. To begin with, video store clerk Ed welcomes the attention, and the show is saving the cable station that gambled on its success. But gradually, as his family and friends become celebrities too, Ed finds a downside to his fame. He becomes estranged from his brother, encounters the father who left his family years before, and rifts emerge between his mother and her husband.
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February 9, 2001
Before director Ron Howard buries the satire in a blanket of bland, Edtv takes some well-aimed comic swats at reality television. Sure, the topic is overworked: The Truman Show targeted intrusive programming like UPN's new Redhanded, which uses hidden cameras to catch subjects off-guard. Edtv, echoing MTV's Real World, reveals an America where "nobody wants to be nobody" and subjects line up to have their privacy invaded for a brush with fame.

Ed Pekurny, the affable San Francisco video-store… Continued

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