1998 2h 4m Gary Ross

Pleasantville

Name: Pleasantville
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1998
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen

★ 7.5 IMDb

Comedy Drama Fantasy

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.

Writer Gary Ross

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

DP John Lindley

Music Randy Newman

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Pleasantville by Jonathan Rosenbaum

In conversation with other films

The Way We Weren’t (PLEASANTVILLE & AMERICAN HISTORY X) by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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