Interesting Movies3 Pairs of Movies with Similar Plots

• Both are strangely perceptive and prophetic dramas about men whose lives have become part of everybody’s entertainment. This is a story that depicts how men struggle with and fight back the constant surveillance and  scrutiny of the public as well as the power-hungry producers that control their lives.

The Truman Show & EdTV

• A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show tells the story of Truman

Burbank whose life is but a part of a massive TV production and he doesn’t know it. His

whole life is a live broadcast of his every move and the people around him including his

family are just but actors cast for a particular role in his life. Truman, ultimately, discovered

the truth in his life gradually and he is faced to do a single but independent decision.

The Truman Show

103 min | PG | Drama | Comedy Release:June 1998 IMDb 8.1/10Rotten Tomatoes 94%Metacritic 90%Screenplay Writer: Andrew NiccolDirector: Peter WeirProduction Company: Paramount PictureMusic composed by: Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip GlassFeatured songs: Piano Sonata in A, 20th Century Boy, Father Kolbe's Preaching, Romance-LarghettoStars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura LinneyCountry :  United StatesLanguage: EnglishBudget $60 millionBox office $264.1 million

• In a desperate attempt to boost ratings, a cable channel’s program director brainstorms a

last ditch effort to save the company: a live, unedited broadcast of one ordinary person’s

life every minute of the day. They choose Ed Pekurny, a laid-back video-store clerk whose

life’s biggest turning point comes with the misfortunes of the NorthWest Broadcasting

Company. While the TV series made Ed an overnight celebrity, it also begins to wreak havoc

and complicate his personal life and relationships.

edTV

122 min | PG | Comedy | Satire Release: March 1999 IMDb 6.1/10Rotten Tomatoes 63%Metacritic 48% Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo MandelScreenplay Writers: Emile Gaudreault and Sylvie BouchardDirector: Ron HowardProducers: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer Music composed by: Randy Edelman and on JoviStars: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner, Sally Kirkland, Elizabeth Hurley, Clint Howard, and Dennis Hopper.Country: United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $80 millionBox office $35,242,897

Both are romantic comedies that deal with attractive people with great relationship but

wanted more from it and decided to add something intimate without the demands of

regular romantic relationships. The result was catastrophic when they found out that

people who are together will never escape the rigmarole of love and falling into it.

No Strings Attached & Friends with Benefits

Emma and Adam are life-long friends who decided to ante their relationship by having sex

one morning

But almost ruining everything they have. In order to protect their friendship, they make a

pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached." "No strings" means no jealousy,

no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, no baby voices and more important no falling in

love. They found out later what “no strings” really means.

No Strings Attached

108 min | R | Television | Romance | Comedy Release: January 2011 IMDb 6.2/10Rotten Tomatoes 49%Metacritic 50%Writer: Elizabeth Meriwether and Mike SamonekScreenplay Writers: Elizabeth Meriwether Director:  Ivan ReitmanProduction Company: Cold Spring Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Montecito Picture CompanyMusic composed by: John DebneyStars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin KlineCountry: United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $25 millionBox office $149,228,077

While trying to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan Harper and Jamie

Rellis think it's going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship. However,

they soon discover that adding something physical do indeed leads to complications.

Friends with Benefits

109 min | R | Comedy Release: July 2011 IMDb 6.6/10Rotten Tomatoes 70%Metacritic 63%Writers: Keith Merryman, David A. Newman and Harley PeytonScreenplay Writer: Will Gluck, Keith Merryman and David A. NewmanDirector: Will GluckProduction Company: Music composed by:Stars: Justin Timberlake, Mila KunisCountry: United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $35 millionBox office $149.5

Both are comedy adventure flicks revolved around groups of friends who were just trying to

have fun but were inadvertently caught in the tangle of disaster. A catastrophe that will

need all their wits and bravery to overcome and triumph over them all

This is The End & The World’s End

The story follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic

events ruined Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever

threaten to tear apart the people inside and the friendship they all shared. Eventually, they

are forced to face their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

This is The End

106 min | R | Drama | Action & Adventure | Horror | ComedyRelease: June 2013 IMDb 6.7/10Rotten Tomatoes 83%Metacritic 67%Writer: Jason Stone (Based on: Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse) Screenplay Writers: Seth Rogen and Evan GoldbergDirector: Seth Rogen and Evan GoldbergProduction Companies: Mandate Pictures and Point Grey PicturesMusic composed by: Henry JackmanStars: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson,           Emma Watson and Michael Cera.Country : United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $32 millionBox office $126 million

Five friends reunite after 20 years and decided to attempt and finally finished their epic pub

crawl. The story unfolds as they go from one pub to other meeting old and new friends,

resolving issues as well as unwittingly saving the world. Amidst their own troubles and

personal issues, they inadvertently become humankind's only hope for survival.

The World’s End

109 min | R | Documentary | History | News Release: August 2013 IMDb 7/10Rotten Tomatoes 89%Metacritic 81%Film Series: the third film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, following Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007)Screenplay Writers: Edgar Wright and Simon PeggDirector: Edgar WrightProduction Company: Relativity Media, StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Big Talk Pictures Music composed by: Steven PriceStars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike and Eddie MarsanCountries: United States and United KingdomLanguage English Budget $20 millionBox office $46.1 million