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Pleasantville (1998)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:71
Rotten:12
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: High production values and an original story impressed critics.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Two modern American teenagers are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom. Bewildered by their new world's naivete and innocence, they slowly start to... [More]
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen
Director: Gary Ross
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Reviews for Pleasantville
The acting in this film -- particularly Maguire, Allen and Daniels (whom I don't generally find very appealing) -- is terrific, but the show belongs to Gary Ross.
01/01/00
Picks up where Truman Show left off!
01/01/00
Top CriticSomeday, maybe someday soon, someone in Hollywood is going to make a genuinely great movie about television as a metaphor for America.
01/29/05
The movie's simplistic storyline does not match its stunning visual accomplishments.
01/01/00
One of the few recent Hollywood films out there that has used new digital technology to truly engage the viewer, and make possible a thoughtful story.
12/17/01
One of the year's delights!
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03/24/02
Though Ross works in some heavy-handed strokes, his portrait of stodgy Eisenhower America dazzles with some of the loveliest imagery of any 1990s film.
02/23/06
A winsome and witty comedy/drama!
01/01/00
A rarity!
01/01/00
A movie of unique ideological derangement that simultaneously demands and defies precise decoding.
01/01/00
Top CriticOne of the year's best and most original films!
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Top CriticWildly ambitious!
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Top CriticA most original film!
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The movie has less biting originality than The Truman Show, but it proves that director Ross retains screenwriter Ross's flair for exploring real-life issues through divertingly far-fetched plots.
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Um dos filmes mais inteligentes de 1998.
05/31/02
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An inverted fish out of water tale - like taking a lion raised by sheep & putting it in the middle of the savannah.
07/09/01
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