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Category: Fantasy
All Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 1998
Country: USA
Runtime: 124
Rating: 8.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Gary Ross
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Gary Ross – (written by)

Produced by: Allen Alsobrook – co-producer
Robin Bissell – associate producer
Andy Borowitz – co-producer
Susan Borowitz – co-producer
Bob Degus – producer (as Robert J. Degus)
Michael De Luca – executive producer
Jon Kilik – producer
Edward Lynn – co-producer
Mary Parent – executive producer
Gary Ross – producer
Steven Soderbergh – producer
Allison Thomas – co-producer

Cast: Tobey Maguire – David
Reese Witherspoon – Jennifer
William H. Macy – George Parker
Joan Allen – Betty Parker
Jeff Daniels – Bill Johnson
J.T. Walsh – Big Bob
Don Knotts – TV Repairman
Marley Shelton – Margaret Henderson
Jane Kaczmarek – Davids Mom
Giuseppe Andrews – Howard
Jenny Lewis – Christin

Music: Randy Newman
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Plot Outline: Two 1990s teenagers find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.
Plot: David, single, lonely and not happy with his life, flees reality by watching Pleasantville – a 1950s b&w soap opera, where everything is just…pleasant. His sister Jennifer, sexually far more active than her brother, gets in a fight with him about a very strange remote control – given to them just seconds after the TV broke by an equally strange repair man – and they suddenly find themselves in Pleasantville, as Bud and Mary-Sue Parker, completely assimilated and therefore black and white, in clothes a little different and with new parents…pleasant ones. David wants to get out of the situation as well as his sister, but whereas he tries to blend in (effortlessly, with his knowledge), she does what she likes to do. One event leads to the other, and suddenly there is a red rose growing in Pleasantville. The more rules are broken, the more colorful life gets in Pleasantville, USA.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
“Dedicated to: Brent Lon Hershman, 1961-1997.”

Goofs: We know about 29 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the final scenes with the 90s mother crying in the kitchen her eye make-up goes from messy to less messy and then back to the previous level of messy.

Trivia: There are 19 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Early appearances of color: the red rose, after the encounter at Lovers Lane; – pink bubblegum seen in the hallway at school; – one girls pink tongue; – the red hearts of the cards in the bridge hand; – the subtle green of the car in front of the diner; – the jukebox in the diner becomes multicolored the guy in front of the jukebox combs his hair with a yellow comb Jennifers red cherry on her shake in the diner; – the pink cherry blossoms reflected in the side mirror of the car; – the subtle green of the grass at Lovers Lane before it turns completely colorized.
• Director Gary Ross acknowledges these cinematographic homages: – The scene of J.T. Walsh in front of the bowling alley scorecard recalls Pattons speech in front of the American flag in Patton (1970); – The courtroom segregated into black-and-white characters downstairs and “colored” characters upstairs recalls To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); – The scene in which Tobey Maguire spins in the rain recalls The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
• The Native American in the test pattern behind Don Knotts changes to angry and then sad as the movie progresses.