These three documentaries summarize pairs of movies with similar plots: 1. The Truman Show and EdTV both tell the story of ordinary men whose lives become televised reality shows without their knowledge or consent. 2. No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits are romantic comedies about attractive friends who try to add sex to their relationships without commitment, but complications arise. 3. This is the End and The World's End feature groups of friends trying to have fun but who get caught up in disasters and must use their wits to survive.

1. Interesting Movies
3 Pairs of Movies with Similar Plots

2. 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

3. • 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 Truman Show
103 min | PG | Drama | Comedy
Release:June 1998
IMDb 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%
Metacritic 90%
Screenplay Writer: Andrew Niccol
Director: Peter Weir
Production Company: Paramount Picture
Music composed by: Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass
Featured songs: Piano Sonata in A, 20th Century Boy, Father
Kolbe's Preaching, Romance-Larghetto
Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
Country : United States
Language: English
Budget $60 million
Box office $264.1 million

4. • 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
edTV
122 min | PG | Comedy | Satire
Release: March 1999
IMDb 6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes 63%
Metacritic 48%
Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Screenplay Writers: Emile Gaudreault and Sylvie Bouchard
Director: Ron Howard
Producers: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer
Music composed by: Randy Edelman and on Jovi
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson,
Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner, Sally Kirkland,
Elizabeth Hurley, Clint Howard, and Dennis Hopper.
Country: United States
Language English
Budget $80 million
Box office $35,242,897

5. 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

6. 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
No Strings Attached
108 min | R | Television | Romance | Comedy
Release: January 2011
IMDb 6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes 49%
Metacritic 50%
Writer: Elizabeth Meriwether and Mike Samonek
Screenplay Writers: Elizabeth Meriwether
Director: Ivan Reitman
Production Company: Cold Spring Pictures, Spyglass
Entertainment, The Montecito Picture Company
Music composed by: John Debney
Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline
Country: United States
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $149,228,077

7. 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 6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes 70%
Metacritic 63%
Writers: Keith Merryman, David A. Newman and Harley Peyton
Screenplay Writer: Will Gluck, Keith Merryman and David A.
Newman
Director: Will Gluck
Production Company:
Music composed by:
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis
Country: United States
Language English
Budget $35 million
Box office $149.5

8. 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

9. 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 | Comedy
Release: June 2013
IMDb 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 83%
Metacritic 67%
Writer: Jason Stone (Based on: Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse)
Screenplay Writers: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Director: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Production Companies: Mandate Pictures and Point Grey Pictures
Music composed by: Henry Jackman
Stars: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny
McBride, Craig Robinson,
Emma Watson and Michael Cera.
Country : United States
Language English
Budget $32 million
Box office $126 million

10. 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 7/10
Rotten 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 Pegg
Director: Edgar Wright
Production Company: Relativity Media, StudioCanal, Working Title
Films and Big Talk Pictures
Music composed by: Steven Price
Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Paddy
Considine, Rosamund Pike and Eddie Marsan
Countries: United States and United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $20 million
Box office $46.1 million