Pleasantville
Nothing is as simple as black and white.
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9/17/1998Runtime
124 minsOverview
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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EnglishBudget
$60,000,000Revenue
$49,800,000Homepage
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A clever visual fable that uses color, black-and-white film stock, and 1950s sitcom aesthetics to explore how repression collapses when confronted with authenticity. It's part comedy, part darker parable about conformity, sexual awakening, and the violence of control.
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