Pleasantville
Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy
Two 1990's teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.
DVD Released: March 23, 1999
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January 11, 2009Interesting movie about siblings being transported into a make believe time.
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August 31, 2008The idea of this movie is brilliant. A couple of kids from the 90's get thrown into the world of a 50's B&W sitcom where everything is just peachy. Peachy yes, but not very real. The firemen have never rescued anything other than a cat in a tree. The basketball team has never... ...( read more )
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March 14, 2008I cannot remember it well enough to evaluate it properly, but I love the idea. The story is like a 'Wizard of Oz' doppleganger, a loss of innocence and discovery of truth through color, imagination and rebellion.
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June 24, 2009This is a fun film. A teen brother and sister both get transported into a old 1950's television show. Everything is black and white in that world. But they influence that world into things they would normally would never do. The world goes from being black and white to a world fu... ...( read more )
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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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November 23, 2006Not normally my sort of film but watched and was really taken with it. I love the concept of black and white changing to colour to fit with the storyline,
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