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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Ron Howard
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Actors:
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Jenna Elfman,
Gail Boggs,
Jenna Byrne,
Matthew McConaughey,
Woody Harrelson,
Sally Kirkland,
Martin Landau,
Ellen DeGeneres,
Rob Reiner,
Dennis Hopper,
Elizabeth Hurley,
Adam Goldberg,
Viveka Davis,
Clint Howard,
Geoffrey Blake
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)99.5
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Plot Summary:
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Cynthia, TV impresario, has an viewpoint give how to set free the station: A normal person's life should be broadcasted 24 hours a date. "Ed TV" is born the second her eye falls on Ed Pekurny, a sympathetic Joe Sixpack. After the ahead week on air Eds fame grows and grows, but conflicts depart open: His pal Ray publishes a entirely disputing book wide Ed, who intermittently dates Ray's ex; Ed's facetiousmater's partnership problematics are broadcasted nationwide and a extremely pleasing and seducing brand uses guiltless Ed to raise her own renown. Also, Ed's contract proves to be unquittable,... so that Ed Pekurny a moment can see the blond bars around his cage. But in a fatherland that switches the TV set on for breakfast and off for bedtime, just about the aggregate can happen - and people can be counted on.
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Edtv
Ron Howard's mild-mannered satire on fame, the media and reality TV. Matthew McConaughey is the dopey video shop assistant catapulted into the limelight when he agrees to appear in a Big Brother-style TV show
Overlooked in favour of The Truman Show, EdTV has more in common with quality sitcom than pertinent parody. But what it lacks in bite it makes up in broad comedy. What emerges is an engaging spoof of life on both sides of the camera.
Ed Pekurney (McConaughey) is the lowly video shop assistant who auditions for an ailing cable network's big new idea: a twenty-four hour reality TV show. The programme's a massive hit but Ed is less than happy to find himself being discussed round the nation's water coolers, or to learn that his brother (Ha...
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