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	Pleasantville (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pleasantville is a New Line Cinema film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels.
		The changes they cause in Pleasantville, and the unexpected consequences to themselves, are highlighted through the use of color: the literally monochrome world of Pleasantville blossoms, in steps small and large, into a rainbow of colors from the palettes of Titian, Monet, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh.
		In particular, the Pleasantville courtroom scene in which colored people are forced into the top courtroom balcony while the non-colored are permitted seating on the main floor echoes a nearly identical Jim Crow scene filmed in To Kill a Mockingbird.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pleasantville_(movie) (496 words)

	Pleasantville UEZ - New Jersey
		Pleasantville is now developing a cyber district initiative to provide an incubator for technology based companies.
		Pleasantville, NJ is a city united by strong community business relations and an aggressive redevelopment program.
		Pleasantville truly is a "City on the Move," featuring an active mix of retail, professional and light industrial businesses.
	www.pleasantville-nj.org (470 words)

	The DVD Journal: Pleasantville
		Just when his geeky worship seems destined to pay off, in the form of a $6,000 trivia contest during a "Pleasantville" marathon, David and his slutty twin sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are miraculously zapped into their television and reluctantly find themselves assuming character roles in the strange, fl-and-white universe of early television.
		Technically, though, the film is solid and creative, and all of the acting is excellent (pity, though, poor Don Knotts, the magical TV repairman who made it all happen, as he wavers inexplicably between flustered confusion, anger, and joy at the film's events).
		Pleasantville is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with both Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 tracks.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/pleasantville.html (1017 words)

	DVD Booty - Pleasantville - New Line Platinum Series
		The people of Pleasantville, previously trapped in their dull, boring, limited, Leave it to Beaver lives, are at first bewildered, and then aghast, at the insidious plague of color that is creeping into their predictable little monchrome universe.
		In the end, of course, their efforts are unable to stem the inexorable tide of color change and Pleasantville is finally reborn in the light of a new day in bilious, full color.
		The way the people and the objects in the film were gradually colorized is a delight to watch, and overall, the film's idea is one of the most creative ones to emerge from Hollywood in recent years.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/pleasantville-new-line-platinum-series (617 words)

	Broadside Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film then jumps to the world of reality, where the '90s are portrayed as a time of fear and danger with a funny and perceptive sequence of teachers instructing their classes on global warming, AIDS and the decline of jobs.
		David is a huge fan of the "Pleasantville" show, while Jennifer is more interested in sex and thinks the show is "dorky." While fighting over what TV show to watch, they accidentally break the remote control.
		So, while the citizens of Pleasantville are given the knowledge of good and evil, in the end they don't have to pay the consequences.
	www.gmu.edu /news/broadside/Archive/102298/Style/pleasantville_102298.html (578 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Pleasantville (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pleasantville may be one of the best, most underrated movies of all time.
		Upon their arrival, however, they discover that Pleasantville isn't everything it's cracked up to be and that being "pleasant" means missing out on some basic, vital parts of life (such as toilets, and of course, sex).
		It would have been much better to show a Pleasantville that does not improve as much as it could because Liberals do not win it as it happens in the movie, changing something (as Liberals did to the world) does not mean winning it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780623703?v=glance (2419 words)

	Pleasantville (1998)
		In Pleasantville, George, a Father Knows Best sort of dad played with neatly efficient detail by William H. Macy, comes home every night at the same time and issues the identical salutation: "Honey, I'm home." Canned laughter greets the announcement, as if mocking the sheer absurdity of the mindlessly puerile entertainment that unspools.
		He mysteriously arrives on the eve of the "Pleasantville 24 Hour Marathon" and supplies the special remote control that transports the siblings back not only 3 decades, but from reality to the chimera of situation comedy.
		The battle lines are drawn in Pleasantville, fl and white folk on one side and people of colour, so to speak, on the other.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Pleasantville.html (985 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Color guard \| 1998-10-22
		In Pleasantville, where the temperature is always 72 and rain never falls, a big night out consists of dropping by the malt shop for a cheeseburger and a cherry Coke, then holding hands in lovers' lane.
		In the hermetic isolation of Pleasantville, nonconformity breeds contempt.
		Pleasantville's most appealing (and most grandiose) conceit, then, is that two teenagers imbued with the diversity politics of the '90s can liberate the Eisenhower years.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1998-10-22/film4.html (721 words)

	PLEASANTVILLE
		While Jennifer is somewhat known for her promiscuousness, David isn't that successful with girls and thus retreats to his home where he enjoys watching vintage 1950's TV sitcoms, particularly the show, "Pleasantville," where life is always perfect and happy.
		In "Truman," the "set" existed (hidden from the real world) because the title character was a real person duped into believing he lived in a real town (with hilarious reasons why you could never leave) although he soon discovered that some buildings were just facades.
		Pleasantville, on the other hand -- and in my opinion -- would only consist of what actually appeared on any given episode of the TV show.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/pleasantville.html (3056 words)

	Pleasantville (1998): Reviews
		In Gary Ross' daring modern fairy tale Pleasantville, an entire fictional town is granted a chance to experience the comedies, and dangers of real life.
		Ingeniously conceived and impressively executed, Pleasantville is a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable.
		Pleasantville was a wonderful movie that is brilliant and shows how the world was in the old days.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/pleasantville (1003 words)

	Review: Pleasantville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pleasantville is about the falseness of family values and the need of the individual to break through society's shield of conformity, but, most of all, it's about having fun at the expense of nostalgia.
		Pleasantville opens in the comfortable familiarity of the '90s, with a common '90s family - David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are the twin children of a broken marriage.
		Color is used purposefully and impressively; it's hard to describe the impact of seeing one red rose amidst the fl and white, or one monochromatic person in a sea of green grass.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pleasantville.html (871 words)

	Pleasantville
		Maguire, an obsessive Pleasantville devotee, understands the need for not toppling the natural balance of things; Witherspoon, on the other hand, starts shaking the town up, most notably when she takes football stud Skip (Paul Walker) up to Lover's Lane for some modern-day fun and games.
		Filled with delightful and shrewd details about sitcom life (no toilets, no double beds, only two streets in the town), Pleasantville is a joy to watch, not only for its comedy but for the groundbreaking visual effects and astonishing production design as the town gradually transforms from crisp fl and white to glorious color.
		Ross does tip his hand a bit about halfway through the film, obscuring the movie's basic message of the unpredictability of life with overloaded and obvious symbolism, as the fl-and-white denizens of the town gang up on the "coloreds" and impose rules of conduct to keep their strait-laced town laced up.
	www.thescorestation.com /Pleasantville.html (310 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Pleasantville' more than pleasant -- it's brilliant - October 23, 1998
		As the two teenagers slowly introduce the townspeople to emotions, Pleasantville begins to explode into ice cream colors as citizens experience ideas, anger, despair, hope, fear and sex.
		There are no villains in "Pleasantville." So to plagiarize blatantly, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." All in all, this wonderful film speaks volumes about prejudice, the freedom of ideas, and the joys of diversity.
		"Pleasantville" opens nationwide on Friday, October 23rd and is rated "PG-13" with a running time of 122 minutes.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9810/23/pleasantville.review (710 words)

	"Pleasantville" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pleasantville is wholesome family values and simplicity and life there is perfect.
		Pleasantville is a twisted allegory of Genesis with so much nonsense, Sunday school third graders could see through the holes of absurdity.
		Ultimately, "Pleasantville" fails on all accounts but for a few of the performances, the art direction, the visual effects and its invocation of 1950's America...
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-pleasantville.html (3044 words)

	'Pleasantville' (PG-13)
		In the monochrome town of Pleasantville, David and Jennifer find themselves transplanted into the roles of Bud and Mary Sue Parker, trapped in a white-bread family where dad George (William H. Macy) is always in a suit and perpetually-aproned mom Betty (Joan Allen) seems to live in the kitchen.
		In Pleasantville, it never rains, nobody has sex, there are no toilets or art, and the books in the library are all blank.
		Slowly, slowly, with the disruptive arrival of David, who can't accept the mindless rote of Pleasantville's citizenry (or its chastity, in the case of Jennifer, who introduces her adoptive community to nooky), the town begins to change into color – first a rose, then a comb, then a clock, then several of the townsfolk themselves.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/pleasantvilleosullivan.htm (525 words)

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	flowershopnetwork.com /directory/NewJerseyFlorists/Pleasantville.php (1018 words)

	The Real Pleasantville.com
		The town was established in 1849 and has continued to grow slowly but consistently.
		Pleasantville offers a central location to many of Iowa's great attractions.
		The county seat of neighboring Warren County, Iowa, Indianola, is merely 15 miles west of Pleasantville.
	www.therealpleasantville.com (140 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pleasantville is the name of a purely middle-class American suburban fantasy paradise, circa 1950-something, in which no one is unhappy, unpleasant, unemployed, un-anything, and all problems are clearly in fl-and-white, and the peole are all White.
		Pleasantville, the town, ceases to be what David knew from "Pleasantville," the televsion show.
		What follows is not simply Pleasantville's first brush with unpleasantness, it is nightmarish, a vivid and frightening display of the grey men and their thugish young supporters enacting Pleasantville's equivalent of "Jim Crow" laws, segregation, apartheid, or call it what you will.
	www.geocities.com /hollywood/hills/1670/pleasantville.html (1420 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Exile in "Pleasantville"
		Instead, she jumps him, and after he drops her off that night, this BMOC notices the first bit of change to come over Pleasantville: a rose that, in contrast to the rest of its gray, monochrome world, has turned bright red.
		It's tough not to respond to the visual cleverness of "Pleasantville" (the cinematographer was John Lindley).
		The movie presents Maguire's fascination with the sitcom "Pleasantville" as a symptom of his yearning for a world where he won't have to deal with his parents' broken marriage, the threats of AIDS and ozone depletion, his potential future inability to find work.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/10/23reviewb.html (1476 words)

	Stand to Reason Commentary - A Review of "Pleasantville"
		Pleasantville folks are the kind who get oppressive if their moral worldview is challenged by something really subversive, like sex--as if Christians have no healthy interest in sex, or art, or literature.
		His mother is going off to spend the weekend with a man nine years her junior, leaving her son and his promiscuous teenage sister to fend for themselves.
		It's a mess, which is one of the reasons he lost himself in the TV series, Pleasantville, in the first place, to escape his miserable life.
	www.str.org /free/commentaries/misc_topics/areviewo.htm (2174 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Pleasantville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I expected a lot from 'Pleasantville', with no less than ten excellent comments from newspapers and magazines on its cover, yet I was also somewhat wary.
		Pleasantville, a fl and white 50s series, is a world where everything is just, well, pleasant - there has never been any hatred, aggression or tears, any passionate kisses, love or sex, any flat tyres, works of art, red roses or rain.
		This film is consistently funny, the funniest scenes being where the two teenagers know more than the adults - the scene in which Witherspoon teaches her mother (played excellently by Joan Allen) the facts of life, in particular, sticks in mind.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004S5N9 (899 words)

	Pleasantville Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		With its white picket fences, wholesome family values, and stability, Pleasantville is a much more civilized alternative to the real world's economic upheaval, environmental turmoil, single-parent families, and bleak prospects for the future.
		And while the Pleasantville households are governed by traditional family values, women are not expected to be independent-- instead they are relegated to being contented by waiting on their husbands hand-and-foot.
		In addition, "Pleasantville" also becomes an examination of the incessant constant of change, and the strength often required to deal with the consequences of its wake.
	www.mediacircus.net /pleasantville.html (993 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Pleasantville
		``Pleasantville,'' which is one of the year's best and most original films, sneaks up on us.
		Space twists back upon itself in Pleasantville, and ``the end of Main Street is just the beginning again.'' Life always goes according to plan, and during basketball practice every shot goes in.
		``Pleasantville'' is the kind of parable that encourages us to re-evaluate the good old days and take a fresh look at the new world we so easily dismiss as decadent.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19981001/REVIEWS/810010301/1023 (831 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Pleasantville Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pleasantville relates the story of two people, a brother and sister, who get transported to a 1950’s "Father Knows Best"-esque television show.
		While the two are in Pleasantville, their actions more and more rapidly change the landscape of the place as the local residents learn of new concepts such as color, and sex.
		Pleasantville is a voyage of discovery, and the music reflects this quite well most of the time.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=1718 (474 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Pleasantville / DVD-Video
		When Pleasantville was released into theaters there were many complaints as to how the fl and white looked on the big screen, as the fl didn’t really look fl and white due to various technical reasons.
		PLEASANTVILLE is a very special review for us here at The BIG Picture.
		However, upon their arrival into the town Pleasantville, the fl and white world slowly changes to color upon a time of change.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=4792&partner_id=45437258 (548 words)

	CAP Report MAR02298, PLEASANTVILLE (1998)
		Probably most the significant issue in Pleasantville was that it was a slam against the wholesomeness and cleanness of the TV series of yesteryear in favor of hedonistic selfness.
		Pleasantville was a movie to promote sexual freedom and the lowering of the threshold of acceptability at the cost of ethics and morality.
		Pleasantville was replete with arrogant invasion into other people's lives.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/pleasant98.htm (1226 words)

	Review: Pleasantville (1998)
		Gary Ross's version of Pleasantville has to be taken as a fable.
		Once you have suspended your disbelief, however, Pleasantville is a pleasant diversion, one that is filled with delightful effects that generate fascinating ideas.
		I was concerned that Pleasantville would jump on the bandwagon of cop-outs that dismisses large parts of the past as inferior and incorrect.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/p/pleasantville.htm (1150 words)

	'Pleasantville' (PG-13)
		Ross gives two modern siblings a chance to do just that in "Pleasantville," a wickedly clever spoof of the TV genre modeled on those mythical communities that the Nelsons, the Andersons and the Cleavers called home.
		Though uneven in tone, the movie boasts many a memorable moment and is bolstered by the superb performances of Macy and Allen as the sitcom's repressed, increasingly perplexed parents and Daniels's poignantly comic turn as soda jerk turned primitive artist.
		The late J.T. Walsh takes his final bow as the blustery blowhard who attempts to maintain the predictable rhythms of "Pleasantville." And Don Knotts, a longtime resident of Mayberry, is a riot as the impish TV repairman who sets the story in motion.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/pleasantvillekempley.htm (579 words)

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