Not The Truman Show?

Paramount's The Truman Show, which is currently topping the box-office charts in the States, is the cause of some controversy. A New York playwright, Mark Dunn, yesterday filed a breach of copyright lawsuit against the film company and the movie's producer. He alleges that most of the elements of his stage play, Frank's Life, performed in New York in 1992, have found their way into the movie. The play was submitted to Paramount the same year with a view to being adapted into a movie. "It's my story," Dunn said in an interview with the New York Post, "The movie could not have been written without someone seeing the play or the script." The report in the New York Post said that similarities between the play and the movie are "striking."