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Pleasantville

Name: Pleasantville
Director: Gary Ross
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998-09-17
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels

1998 · 2h 4m · Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

IMDb 7.5 Metacritic 71 RT 85%

Watch it tonight. Pleasantville is a clever, visually inventive fantasy that uses its 1950s sitcom premise to say something smart about conformity and self-discovery, and the strong critical consensus backs it up. It's the kind of thoughtful, entertaining movie that rewards your attention without demanding too much of your brain.

Plot

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Director: Gary Ross

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels

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