In competition with five other unwanted pregnancies, the casting of a show, determined by an air date, Truman was the one who arrived on cue.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Truman Show movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:05:15.630 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- But how do you intend to explain his 22-year absence?
- Amnesia.
- Let's take some of those viewer phone calls. Charlotte, North Carolina, you're on with Christof.
- Uh, Yeah. Hi, Christof. I was just wondering how many cameras you got there in that town.
- Somewhere in the vicinity of 5000.
- Oh. That's a lot of cameras.
- Remember, we started with just one.
- Incidentally, I believe Truman is the first child to have been legally adopted by a corporation?
- People forget it takes the population of an entire country to keep the show running.
- And, of course, all of it available in the Truman catalog, and operators are standing by.
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