Ed TV MPAA Rating: PG-13 Entertainment: +2 1/2 Content: -2

To boost its non-existent ratings, True TV network decides to try following a real person around all the time with a camera crew. During auditions, they discover Ed Pekuny (Matthew McConaughey), a video store clerk. His brother Ray (Woody Harrelson) sees it as a chance to get money for some of his dreams. But when Ray's girlfriend Sherry (Jenna Elfman) falls for Ed, the ratings begin to climb. But with the TV cameras, Ed finds he has no privacy for any relationship. Ed finds that being a celebrity means finding out secrets about your family and sharing them with the world, whether you want to or not. And greedy TV executives have him trapped in a contract that may be unbreakable. ED TV has funny moments but like Ed, you wish the TV cameras would go away. But the likeable characters and the familiar actors will bring in the younger adult crowds.

As one character puts it, "TV has reached an all time low." In some cases, so has this film. The main message of the film seems to be that we've become a voyeuristic society. We want to see the private parts of other people's lives. And we make celebrities out of people not because of what they've done, but because of where they are. Along the way, we see Ed scratch his crotch, drink beer, argue with his brother and attempt sex with a model. Rear female nudity is shown in one scene of a woman in thong underwear and breast nudity is flashed one time as Ed and Sherry are discovered "making out" in a car. There's also a disgusting scene with close-ups of Ed clipping his toenails. Foul language is used throughout with the s-word 9 times, 11 other obscenities, 20 moderate crudities and God's name used in vain 13 times. Finger gestures are used several times as well. A homosexual couple is shown watching Ed TV and hugs when he wins Sherry back. Ed makes for poor TV and a poor role model.

Preview Reviewer: Paul Bicking
Distributor: Universal Pictures