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Pleasantville
  • Tobey Maguire (The Cider House Rules) and Reese Witherspoon (Election) star as two modern american teenagers who are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom.Running Time: 134 min. System Requirements: Directed by Gary Ross Writing credits Gary Ross Cast overview: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspo

When 90′s teens David and Jennifer get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black & white 50′s sitcom, Pleasantville, chaos ensues.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVDFantastical writer Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an auspicious directorial debut with this inspired and oddly touching comedy about two ’90s kids (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) thrust into the black-and-white TV world of Pleasantville, a Leave It to Beaver-style sitcom complete with picket fences, corner malt shop, and warm chocolate chip cookies. When a somewhat unusual remote control (provided by repairman Don Knotts) transports them from the jaded real world to G-rated TV land, Maguire and Witherspoon are forced to play along as Bud and Mary Sue, the obedient children of George and Betty Parker (William H. Macy and Joan Allen). Maguire, an obsessive Pleasantville devotee, understands the need for not toppling the natural balance of things; Witherspoon, on the other hand, starts shaking the town up, most notably when she takes basketball stud Skip (Paul Walker) up to Lover’s Lane for some modern-day fun and games. Soon enough, Pleasantville’s teens are discovering sex along with–gasp!–rock & roll, free thinking, and soul-changing Technicolor. Filled with delightful and shrewd details about sitcom life (no toilets, no double beds, only two streets in the town), Pleasantville is a joy to watch, not only for its comedy but for the groundbreaking visual effects and astonishing production design as the town gradually transforms from crisp black and white to glorious color. Ross does tip his hand a bit about halfway through the film, obscuring the movie’s basic message of the unpredictability of life with overloaded and obvious symbolism, as the black-and-white denizens of the town gang up on the “coloreds” and impose rules of conduct to keep their strait-laced town laced up. Still, the characterizations from the phenomenal cast–especially repressed housewife Allen and soda-shop owner Jeff Daniels, doing some of their best work ever–will keep you emotionally invested in the film’s outcome, and waiting to see Pleasantville in all its final Technicolor glory. –Mark Englehart

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  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2010
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    Pleasantville, a truthfull summary. Liberalism, when distilled to its basic core is simply a political system we know by another name; Communism. The generation before mine fought the expansion of communism and saw it largely defeated with the fall of the Soviet Union, all the while not realizing that it had taken hold in the very heart of America. Compare the two: 1) All resources belong to the government and it decides to whom they will be redistributed 2) The government will decide how best to raise our children, destroying the family in the process 3) There is no true freedom of speech unless you happen to agree with the ruling party; and this list could go on. This threat of “New Communism” is perhaps much more deadly than that of the old. “New Communism” has infiltrated our society slowly, lulling us into a state of apathy and denial. With each passing generation the roots of this evil seed become a little more firm, a little more entrenched. My point being that when we as Americans turn our collective and individual backs on the advancement of Liberal Agenda, we allow the very foundation of our beloved nation to crumble a little more. Let us stand and fight now while we still have something worth fighting for. Let us defend our country, our way of life with the same patriotism and valor as was demonstrated to us by generations gone by. Let us not sit by and watch our precious America be destroyed. Thank you for your time and God bless America.

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  • abe
    March 21, 2010
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    the basic story is that peter parker from spider man goes into his tv into a black and white world called pleasureville.errrr pleasentville.regardless,its a old tv sitcom from the 50s.everything he does has a drastic effect on thier world.for instance,he showed up late to work and the diner guy stood and scrubbed the same spot on the bar until he got there since it was a break in their routine.then his prissy,stuck up sister shows and acts like a ho.this introduces another foriegn element into this world.with each new element,a new color would appear in the movie.the people in town started freaking out about this.its really neat.the guy who played spider man is the main character.his sister is just another horny teenager.chicks like her are like a stop sign.theres a new one at every corner.its a one of a kind movie like wizard of oz meets back to the future.his sister is kinda cute though.the message is all about the social transformations between the 50s and 60s.the special effects are pretty cool.i doubt there will be a sequel since theres no way it could ever approach the genius of the first one.

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  • dido man
    March 21, 2010
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    “Pleasantville”

    The name of the movie we watch was called Pleasantville, it all starts with this family whose they have a broken home, the main characters are David and Jen, Jen is a wild girl she likes to go out and party, on the other hand there is David who is a big fan of this black and white TV show, which is called Pleasantville where everything is basically pleasant (this show starts at 6:30).

    Jen has a date at exact same time as the show starts well, its 6:30 and they are both coming down stairs, David to watch his TV show and Jen to meet her date, David turns on the TV and his sister starts telling him to go upstairs, because her date could be there at any minute. They start arguing the remote is being thrown around and accidentally breaks, but by coincidence there is a TV repairman outside.

    He gives them a weird looking remote control that takes them into the TV and they’ve become part of the show Pleasantville, everything is changed his family is real polite towards David or should I say “Bud” everything is black and white, but Jen is still the same wild girl, her new name is Mary Sue and that’s when the whole big deal starts happening.

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  • Draconis Blackthorne
    March 21, 2010
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    I found this to be quite a Satanic film to consider in that it focuses on a McCarthyistic / Rockwellian environment, with its residents being virtual clones in a black and white world in dualism, remaining pleasantly ignorant of anything ouside the fetters therein.

    A fan named David of a program named “Pleasantville” gets paid a visit by an unassuming, though a bit meddling TV repairman {Don Knotts} who observes his passion and extensve trivia of the show, thereby zapping him and his sister into the Letharginator turned virtual time portal, wgere they arrive in the quaint little towne complete with period clothing to match, and a remote controller whch now has the power to transport them back through the letharginatrix when desired.

    They are warned not to interfere with the goings-on, but to to only basque in the charming simplicities of the time. But little by little, gems of knowledge are released to the Pleasantvillians, to which an interesting enigma occurs – they begin to acquire COLOR – the more wordly knowledge that is accumulated, the more colorful the town and the people become; until this eventually causes a rift between the black-white civilians and the “colords”.

    Knotts notices the changes from the future, admonishing that they make a hasty return, but David is determned to remain as a veritable Lucifer enlightening the polulace, along with his sister Jennifer, who decides to become quite the succubus, to the delights of the flesh of the world, of the mind and the emotions, and the fortunate young men she chooses to bestow her beauty.

    Of note, the relationship between David and the cook at the local soda shoppe, who in the beginning would not even close up shop without the help of his little waiter-friend, but who begins nurturing his talent for art, as Davis presents him with a vertiable “forbidden book”, which sparks an inferno of motivation; so much so, that he begins persuing his bliss agressively, making up for all that lost time when he was only allowed to draw one different painting per holiday season on the front window of the shop. And now, the place becomes strewn with paintings, although most of them are portrits of David’s mother, whom he has been infatuated with for a long time – and there is a very interesting story behind that as well. She too has acquired color, by both persuing her reciprocal infatuation with the artist, and finally experiencing an ORGASM – it seems as if the residents were not even aware of coitus much less masturbation – they didn’t even defecate!

    The ignorant populace subsequently become rousted when a new mural on the soda shoppe is spotted – that of a semi-clad David’s mother in all of her elegant beauty. The grey-scale cretins smash it to bits and vandalize the shop for his creative efforts. Still, he follows his heart and eventually creates another masterpiece, this time on the side-wall of the place, which pictorally recounts the unfortunate occurrences as of late, most noticably, the despicable burning of books which are depicted sprouting wings and flying up into the sky like so many angels. This was cause by David and his sister recalling the contents of certain literature in the librarium, to which the predictable blank pages in the myriad tomes begin to fill by the recollections of their memories.

    Of course, because of the various labidonous and epystomological expressions thus surfacing in the once completely bland township, the politicians amongst the greyscale drones mobilize against the evolutions by passing restrictive laws to squelch all future manifestations of the imagination, until the mural incident, in which the artist is called into Court, where there is one judge, no jury, and the attendents therein are divided between the greys and the colords. David must act as his own and the cook’s attorney until finally, he invokes a response emotional enough to surface color in the Judge himself, to which he goes out running amidst the laughter of all in the hall.

    After this, the toen is in brilliant Satan-O-Vision color, as if painted by the hands of daemons. So David finally returns, and all is as it was in his own time, with an additional kaleidoscopic flame of knowledge to boot.

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  • A. R SCOTT
    March 21, 2010
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    I LIKE THIS VIDEO REESE WITHERSPOON IS IN THIS VIDEO. I LIKE REESE SHE IS A GREAT ACTRESS. I ENJOY THIS MOVIE BUT IT IS VERY WEIRD. DON KNOTTS MAKES AN APPREANCE. THIS SETTING OF THIS MOVIE REMINDS ME OF “LEAVE IT TO BEAVER”. I ENJOYED THIS VIDEO.

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