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	Pleasantville - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		Television was a big theme in the movies in 1998 and 1999.
		Pleasantville, in which teenagers are magically sent to play parts in a sitcom set forty years in the past.
		When I saw Pleasantville in the theater, I was dazzled by the color once it reappeared.
	feedmyego.com /movies/P/Pleasantville1998.html (495 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Pleasantville (1998)
		Pleasantville is a high concept film that sounds like it'll be an interesting but forgettable one-joke movie.
		The first part of the movie is content to be a light comedy that toys with the obvious possibilities.
		I don't think the movie was made as a savage attack of sitcoms.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/pleasantville.1998.shtml (447 words)

	Pleasantville (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pleasantville is much like the (Capital of the state of Illinois) Springfield of (additional info and facts about Father Knows Best) Father Knows Best or the Mayfield of (additional info and facts about Leave It to Beaver) Leave It to Beaver.
		On the (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set) DVD's director commentary, Ross noted that the film had been called "both amoral and moralistic", a contradiction in which he reveled.
		The (additional info and facts about tagline) tagline for the film nicely (additional info and facts about summarizes) summarizes what the movie is about: nothing is as simple as fl and white.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pl/pleasantville_(movie).htm (338 words)

	Steve's 1998 Movie Reviews
		Grease has always been a fun movie, but this "remastered" release was a technical let-down, with muddy spoken dialog and a soundtrack too easily overwhelmed by the crooners in the audience.
		Many movies rely on special effects (Godzilla, Waterworld) but this is one of that rare breed where the technical wizards are quietly supporting a strong story and interesting characters (Babe, Star Wars).
		Pleasantville is ambitious, and it's complexity leads to some inconsistencies in the "rules," but it does a good job challenging us about how things are and how we believe they should be.
	home.att.net /~Steves.Movies/movie98.html (1986 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)

	Pleasantville (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		changes they cause in Pleasantville and the consequences to themselves are highlighted through the of color: the literally monochrome world of blossoms in steps small and large into rainbow of colors from the palettes of Titian Monet Gauguin Renoir and van Gogh.
		The change in color is the primary visual effect used to accent the changes to people and the world they inhabit changes challenge the values and emphasis on continuity conformity that many consider to be the of 1950s America.
		The back cover says it all "Youth and movies go together like popcorn and soda." This 1999 ninty-seven page paperback from Abington Press is a terrific resource for youth ministers, priests and teachers to provide a fun filled retreat experience...
	www.freeglossary.com /Pleasantville_(1998_movie) (647 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pleasantville at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Because you see, there’s going to be a Pleasantville Marathon on cable, and it’s going to have trivia questions during it with a prize, and David (being the biggest fan of the show alive) doesn’t see how he could possibly fail to win the grand prize.
		Pleasantville as a paradise on earth is at the heart of the fundamental premise of the shows that it is based on, most particularly Father Knows Best and The Donna Reed Show.
		This movie is not afraid to take a stand: book banning and burning are the first reactions of those who fear change, and they are always morally evil.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-6D8D-39F1DDFE-3A51BB94-prod5 (4248 words)

	Pleasantville Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		The changes wrought on Pleasantville -- from Jeff Daniels' soda jerk suddenly developing artistic ambitions to the mother of Bud and Mary Sue discovering herself, her sexuality, and her yearning for a life outside of her home -- are cataclysmic.
		As mentioned earlier, the Pleasantville DVD is chock-full of extras, the most prominent being the two audio commentaries, one by Ross, the other by composer Randy Newman with an isolated musical score.
		1998 (PG) Surreal social dramedy about a cheery suburbanite who makes the staggering discovery that his town is, in fact, a TV studio, his family and friends actors, and he the star in a popular TV series.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=43782&LF=MRM&LF=MRP (1120 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Exile in "Pleasantville"
		And, of course, in order to keep the movie on its social-political parable track, there have to be a whole bunch of narrow-minded nasties who don't like the new changes at all.
		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)

	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.
		The movie was also lit for both fl and white and color, which is nearly impossible.
		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.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9810/23/pleasantville.review (710 words)

	Pleasantville (1998): Reviews
		Ingeniously conceived and impressively executed, Pleasantville is a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable.
		The movie's simplistic storyline does not match its stunning visual accomplishments: Pleasantville's story is drawn from a palette that's strictly limited to fl-and-white.
		I try to critique movies the best i can but i honestly have to say that this film was as close to perfect as a movie can get.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/pleasantville (1029 words)

	Review: Pleasantville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		The movie needs to be seen more than once to absorb exactly how the color scheme has been constructed and executed.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pleasantville.html (871 words)

	Pleasantville (movie)
		The changes they cause in Pleasantville, and the unexpected consequences tothemselves, are highlighted through the use of color: the literally monochrome world of Pleasantville blossoms, in steps smalland large, into a rainbow of colors from the palettes of Titian, Monet, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh.
		Color is introduced slowly, subtly, deliberately; at first it mayonly touch a single flower, or the tongue of a girl.
		The change in color is the primary visual effect used to accent thechanges to the people and the world they inhabit, changes which challenge the values and emphasis on continuity and conformity that many consider to be the hallmark of 1950s America.
	www.therfcc.org /pleasantville-movie--69921.html (282 words)

	Amazon.com: Pleasantville (New Line Platinum Series) (1998): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		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).
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305308659?v=glance (2549 words)

	Movie Picks 1998
		I have compiled a list of which I consider to be the top 10 movies I saw in the theater, the top 3 I saw on video, a few honorable mentions, and one or two movies that I didn't see but heard good things about.
		Two things: 1) When I saw the movie the person I saw with said that he felt like someone had taken a drill to his head -- that was what watching that movie was like to him.
		The movie is influenced quite a bit by Woody Allen, whose voice is used for the central character.
	myhome.spu.edu /rhoek/movie.htm (532 words)

	Pleasantville (1998): Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, Gary Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As an aside: I am fascinated by these two movies being so good and both being about real people being part of television, part of scary idealized TV Land and making chaos out to be a virtue rather than the negative influence chaos is generally viewed as.
		Joan Allen is the mom, you know, cook, clean, "Oh, honey!" and all that in Pleasantville, and Allen has the perfect face (even sociologically - she would have been the archetypal housewife then) for the sweet 50's mom/housewife/cookie baker.
		Pleasantville is kind of an inverted fish out of water tale - it's like taking a lion raised by sheep since it was a cub and putting it in the middle of the savannah.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/movie-1084080/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=5&rid=235264 (928 words)

	Pleasantville (1998) - Movie review, preview, listings and user ratings
		David is an avid fan of the television show "Pleasantville" and he immediately realizes that he and his sister have replaced two of the main characters, Bud and Mary Sue.
		Pleasantville is starting to become a lot less pleasant as some of the older citizens take to the streets, frightened of what they might become.
		Though most of the movie is acceptable for some ages, there are a few scenes that parents might object to.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=914 (916 words)

	1998 Movie Reviews
		On the face of this movie, Blade is still a distinctly lightweight superhero when compared with the likes of Batman or Superman, but the possibility of a sequel is still a mind-numbingly entertaining prospect.
		Essentially however, this is the movie in which George Clooney finally makes good and fulfills all the expectations that people have had of him on the big screen.
		Ultimately the movie proves that the Spice Girls can’t act, only one of them can really sing and even some of their dancing is suspect.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~napoleon/mrevs98.htm (19202 words)

	Pleasantville - 1998 Actors and Music Sites
		These sites will be updated as additional movie resources become available.
		Thanks for visiting the gocount directory of Pleasantville - 1998 movie music and actor information.
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	www.gocount.com /movies/Pleasantville_-_1998.html (112 words)

	Pleasantville
		When CV sees a movie like Pleasantville, we get a little worried about slipping into a double standard, on the one hand, and preaching condescendingly, on the other.
		Pleasantville says that passion and creativity and art and life itself are experienced only with risk and pain and the unknown future that looms before each of us.
		The contrast between now and then, the real versus a perceived (and media-generated) ideal is the structure on which both the themes of the story and its comedy hinge.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Pleasantville.htm (481 words)

	Pleasantville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pleasantville is the name of several places the United States of America :
		Pleasantville is also the name of a 1998 movie.
		The fifty's classics are great and Fiona Apple's remake of the Beatle's "Across the Universe" [which was a wonderful song to begin with] is just "icing on the cake".
	www.freeglossary.com /Pleasantville (348 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Don't look back? 'Me Myself I' director living two lives - April 26, 2000
		For the first 34 years of her life, she was single, and for much of it she was enjoying a career as an editor in the Australian movie biz (most notably, she cut the Oscar-winning 1996 film "Shine").
		"Pleasantville," a 1998 movie that sweeps two modern teens into a life inside a 1950s television show.
		And yet there are the ideas from her former single life flickering proudly on the movie screen.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/26/pip.karmel (991 words)

	Pleasantville (1998) - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He's hooked on reruns of a classic television show called "Pleasantville," set in a simple place where everyone is swell and perky.
		David immerses himself in "Pleasantville" as an innocent escape from the trouble-plagued real world that he must share with his ultra-hip, totally popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon).
		All the repressed desires of life in the Fifties begin to boil up through the people of Pleasantville, changing their lives in strange and wonderful ways that none of them had even dared to dream of, until they were visited by two kids from the real world.
	movieweb.com /movie/pleasantville (316 words)

	Review: Pleasantville (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		It occurred to me that perhaps the most worthy part of Pleasantville is its attempt to engage profound ideas.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/p/pleasantville.htm (1150 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Pleasantville - 1998
		That paper would be useless once she left Pleasantville without the college to back it up.
		At the end of the movie, Pleasantville (through the magic of the movies) has become a real place.
		She likes how her life is going in Pleasantville and never discusses going back to the real world with her diploma.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=45174 (285 words)

	Pleasantville (1998) - MovieWeb
		He's hooked on reruns of a classic television show called "Pleasantville," set in a simple place where everyone is swell and perky.
		David immerses himself in "Pleasantville" as an innocent escape from the trouble-plagued real world that he must share with his ultra-hip, totally popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon).
		All the repressed desires of life in the Fifties begin to boil up through the people of Pleasantville, changing their lives in strange and wonderful ways that none of them had even dared to dream of, until they were visited by two kids from the real world.
	www.movieweb.com /movie/pleasantville (297 words)

	Film Review: Pleasantville
		These movies wear their originality lightly, as if comedy can't be serious, even if it feels the urge.
		His fave is "Pleasantville", a pastichy Fifties cult watch for high school nerdspotters.
		By initiating Pleasantvile's hand-holding young lovers into the sensual pleasures of Teen City, USA, Jennifer brings colour into their lives, as well as prejudice, anger and confusion.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/p/pleasantville_1998.shtml (424 words)

	Kinnopio's Movie Reviews - Pleasantville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although the atmosphere and buzz about the movie are cheery and lighthearted, Plesantville should not be mistaken for a no-thought movie.
		Not in recent memory has a movie carried such weight of theme into widescale distribution, and even if mass audiences fail to see the ingenuity of Ross' work, it is still a testament that his picture was considered worthy enough.
		It's not long before she sets the town of Pleasantville on end, and begins to teach the townspeople - in a quite unlikely way - what life is really like.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/1998/pleasant.htm (543 words)

	Pleasantville by Randy Newman (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Like the people of Pleasantville themselves, the music is filled with enthusiastic, child-like innocence, while wading into unknown passions.
		The movie embraces the mosaic shades of our humanity, and the music helps us celebrate it.
		Each cue is absolutely tailor made for its scene in the movie, making the audience feel the story they are watching.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1998/pleasantville.html (289 words)

	theVoiceofReason.com, Pleasantville, Spoof, Funny, Movie Review
		He is a fan of Pleasantville, a fl and white feel good family sitcom of the 1950's, as is David.
		Perfectly pleasant, if dull, Pleasantville, is about to become colourized in a spectacular and intelligent satire on social values when confronted with change, and particularly civil rights for those outside the mainstream.
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	www.thevoiceofreason.com /ComedyMovieWatch/Pleasantville.htm (256 words)

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