Pleasantville
Directed by Gary Ross
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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Pleasantville Ratings & Reviews
- NewFilmsAnonymous29 June 2025Gen Z girls waking up to the Mary Sue character arc was not part of the original plan. Have another rice square.
- lovinlif3925 August 2025There are so many messages in this movie
- Juan Sandoval21 August 2025“We’re supposed to be in color!”
- lind53720 February 2026One of my favorite movies growing up. I used to watch this on reruns on TBS. Absolutely love this movie. 10/10 every time.
- Charles Hilton17 February 2026A fun romp that's held up over the years. Makes you think.
- seanlake18117 February 2026We love this movie. It's beautiful not only in film, but directing, storyline and visuals. Humans at an innocence pushed beyond change, responding in fear, ultimately embracing the change, except one, and growing. Lovely story paralleling current climate.
- eloisazambrano91820 January 2026Was a Pleasant movie 😎
- maddie1918 January 2026A star studded cast but it just isn't climatic nor attention-grabbing. Sorry, Reese & Toby & Mr Macy & Bridges!
- Willard Wiliker Williams6 January 2026Must be awfully lucky to see colours like that. I'll bet they don't know how lucky they are.
- Essan Kofi5 August 2025A very pleasant watch!
- Mathew27 November 2025Amazing film.
- Phil C.31 July 2025great entertainment
Pleasantville Trivia
Pleasantville was released on 23 October 1998.
Pleasantville was directed by Gary Ross.
Pleasantville has a runtime of 2h 4m.
Pleasantville was produced by Jon Kilik, Steven Soderbergh, Gary Ross.
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.
The key characters in Pleasantville are David (Tobey Maguire), Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), George Parker (William H. Macy).
Pleasantville is rated 12.
Pleasantville is a Comedy, Fantasy, Drama film.
Pleasantville has an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10.
Pleasantville had a budget of US$60M.
Pleasantville has made US$49.8M at the box office.