Film

Pleasantville 1998

Directed by Gary Ross

  • Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
  • 124 min
  • PG-13

Rotten Tomatoes86%Metacritic71

Nothing is as simple as black and white.

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.

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Nostalgic, meticulous, effortless and warm.

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  • effortlessdemanding
  • warmbleak
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