evidence: In terms of casting choices, when you think of a movie with such a serious and satirical content, Jim Carrey is not the first actor that comes to mind. Not to say that he isn’t a talented performer, but at the time, his resumé featured the more low-brow films like Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Earth Girls are Easy, Batman Forever, The Mask, and so forth. Even in the not-too-acclaimed movie The Cable Guy, he was still up to his usual antics with his exaggerated facial expressions (often referred to as ‘rubber face’), his wacky line-delivery, and his downright buffoonish persona. This may’ve appealed to some niche category of audience, but it wasn’t enough to win over the critics and earn him the title of ‘serious actor’. He was still thought of as the SNL guy who could make you laugh every once in a while. But then, The Truman Show came along and changed everything for Carrey. [...] But none of these performances would have meant anything without the stellar direction of Peter Weir, the man who brought us Dead Poets Society. His attention to the carefully quilted details is uncanny. Displace one element, and there would be diminishment in this ‘world within a world’. And to think, there was talk that Tim Burton was going to direct this feature. [...] RATING: Giving this a PG for Positively Groudbreaking!