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.
Cinematography
Color bleeding into monochrome like desire breaking through
Writing
Satire so sharp it cuts two ways—nostalgia and critique
Acting
Joan Allen's quiet transformation will wreck you
Director
Gary Ross
Tobey Maguire
David
Reese Witherspoon
Jennifer
William H. Macy
George Parker
Joan Allen
Betty Parker
Jeff Daniels
Mr. Johnson
J.T. Walsh
Big Bob
Paul Walker
Skip
Don Knotts
TV Repairman
Marley Shelton
Margaret Henderson
Jane Kaczmarek
David's Mom
Giuseppe Andrews
Howard
Jenny Lewis
Christin
Marissa Ribisi
Kimmy
Denise Dowse
Health Teacher
McNally Sagal
Science Teacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gary Ross had to invent new film processing to achieve selective color—no CGI, just painstaking frame-by-frame work that took eleven months.
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