Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Acting
McConaughey's full-commitment earnestness sells the absurd premise.
Writing
Lowell Ganz's script sneaks existential dread into sitcom beats.
Direction
Ron Howard finds humanity in the manufactured spectacle.

Director
Ron Howard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released five months before Big Brother premiered in the Netherlands, making it eerily prescient about reality TV's explosion.
The film bombed because audiences found the premise too unbelievable — then spent the next decade making it mundane.