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Pleasantville

1998

Gary Ross

Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen ...

6.8

13,713

Comedy. Drama. Fantasy. Romance Plot: Left home together for the weekend, teenage brother and sister David and Jennifer argue over which tv show to watch, he wanting to watch a marathon of his favourite series, the old 1950s show ‘Pleasantville’, while she wants to watch MTV with a date. During the argument, the tv remote ends up being broken. A strange tv repairman then appears and gives them a new remote. But when the argument resumes the new remote mysteriously ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It begins by kidding those old black-and-white sitcoms (...) it continues by pretending to be a sitcom itself, and it ends as a social commentary of surprising power (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'Pleasantville' is so ambitious, so clever and so satisfying in so many ways that the small inconsistency that mars its real achievement is almost negligible."	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"Ingeniously conceived and impressively executed, "Pleasantville" is a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable"	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"A poignant, touching film"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Technical elegance and fine performances mask the shallowness of a story as simpleminded as the ’50s TV to which it condescends"	NEU

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