Pleasantville

About Pleasantville

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.

Gary Ross's Pleasantville is a 1998 comedy fantasy film. The film is filed under magic realism, diner, alternative reality, and masturbation.

Tobey Maguire takes the lead as David, Reese Witherspoon as Jennifer, William H. Macy as George Parker, and Joan Allen as Betty Parker. It runs 124 minutes and was released in September 1998.

The screenplay is by Gary Ross. It was produced by Juno Pix and Larger Than Life Productions.

District 9, The Tree of Life, and To Kill a Mockingbird make useful companions to Pleasantville, all filed under dystopia, racism, and satire. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 1,972 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.