Keeping the Faith
2000
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- "EDtv" is ultimately a very funny, yet revealing look at the price that's paid for fame, even if it's just the Andy Warhol 15-minute variety. Howard astutely examines how fame has now become its own virtue. One line in the film sums it up: "People used to be famous for being special, now they're special by just being famous."
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Mar 26, 1999 · The film stars Matthew McConaughey as Ed Pekurny, a Texas charmer who is discovered during auditions by a desperate cable channel. He can talk "regular'' or he can talk Texan, he says, demonstrating accents as a TV producer (Ellen DeGeneres) watches, enraptured.
63% Tomatometer 48 Reviews 30% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings In a desperate attempt to boost ratings, a cable channel decides to document the life of someone on a daily basis and air the footage...
- (48)
- Ron Howard
- PG-13
- Matthew Mcconaughey
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 64%, based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's consensus states: "If it's not as ambitious as The Truman Show in satirizing the voyeuristic nature of television, EdTV is an amiable, witty comedy with fine performances from Matthew McConaughey and ...
Mar 26, 1999 · Edtv: Directed by Ron Howard. With Geoffrey Blake, Gail Boggs, Jenna Byrne, Merrin Dungey. A video store clerk agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a television show.
- (45K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Ron Howard
- 1999-03-26
Jan 22, 2024 · 1) reality television. 2) social media. In 1999, EDtv was not a wholly original idea. Yes, it was based on a French film called Louis 19, King of the Airwaves, but concerning American audiences, they weren’t unfamiliar with watching stranger’s lives on television.
- Michael Suarez
EDtv will inevitably be compared to Peter Weir's The Truman Show but really they haven't much in common. The Truman Show took itself far too seriously. EDtv is a fairly black comedy, a satire on modern TV culture. The producers of a failing TV network decide to take a punt and try a new format - a real TV doco on an ordinary life.
By JANET MASLIN. n his good-humored, deceptively easygoing satire "EdTV," Ron Howard holds up a fun-house mirror to a world ruled by voyeurism and specious fame. It's a world where a simple "He's...
