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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGUIRE,TOBEY
Fabric Type: 9786305308652
Gem Type: Tobey Maguire (The Cider House Rules) and Reese Witherspoon (Election) star as two modern american teenagers who are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom.Running Time: 134 min. System Requirements: Directed by Gary Ross Writing credits Gary Ross Cast overview: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspo
Graphics Memory Size: AC-3, Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6305308659
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 100
Maximum Color Depth: New Line Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitled
Metal Type: New Line Home Video
Pearl Type: N4728
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: New Line Home Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: June 01, 2004
Total S Video Out Ports: 124 minutes
New Line Home Video
October 23, 1998
Features:- Tobey Maguire (The Cider House Rules) and Reese Witherspoon (Election) star as two modern american teenagers who are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom.Running Time: 134 min. System Requirements: Directed by Gary Ross Writing credits Gary Ross Cast overview: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspo
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When 90's teens David and Jennifer get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black & white 50's sitcom, Pleasantville, chaos ensues.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Fantastical writer Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an auspicious directorial debut with this inspired and oddly touching comedy about two '90s kids (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) thrust into the black-and-white TV world of Pleasantville, a Leave It to Beaver-style sitcom complete with picket fences, corner malt shop, and warm chocolate chip cookies. When a somewhat unusual remote control (provided by repairman Don Knotts) transports them from the jaded real world to G-rated TV land, Maguire and Witherspoon are forced to play along as Bud and Mary Sue, the obedient children of George and Betty Parker (William H. Macy and Joan Allen). 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 basketball stud Skip (Paul Walker) up to Lover's Lane for some modern-day fun and games. Soon enough, Pleasantville's teens are discovering sex along with--gasp!--rock & roll, free thinking, and soul-changing Technicolor. 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 black 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 black-and-white denizens of the town gang up on the "coloreds" and impose rules of conduct to keep their strait-laced town laced up. Still, the characterizations from the phenomenal cast--especially repressed housewife Allen and soda-shop owner Jeff Daniels, doing some of their best work ever--will keep you emotionally invested in the film's outcome, and waiting to see Pleasantville in all its final Technicolor glory. --Mark Englehart
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I was very satisfied with the quality and the timely manner in which I received my movie. It seems that all of the local video stores are going out of business and I was excited to add this one to my collection.
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Yes, there is instances of sex, nudity, masturbation, violence, etc; But there is also talk of change, acceptance, growth, joy, sorrow, and much more.
This movie shows everything that we as humans are, both the good and the bad and how we can and have grown from it. It is a beautiful and meaningful movie which everyone should watch more than once (the first time just to see the story, second time to understand it).
To the people who give it one star, the ones who all say its all about ... Read More
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I used this with high school students for a remedial English class, to a great response. Because the symbolism and the story features are so obvious, yet entertaining, it was easy for them to identify metaphors, allusions, themes, etc. These inner-city (mainly Latino and Chicano) non-readers were able to write fairly decent essays about the themes in the film and the use of symbols, etc. They also learned something about what the famous 1960's were a rebellion against -- just how oppressive that ... Read More
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This movie was one of the few films made in recent decades with a truly original plot (another one was The Truman Show). I admit that I went to see it, expecting another leftist political propaganda movie from Hollywood, full of the usual cliches. You can argue either way that it is and it is not, but like Dead Man Walking, it does a superb balancing act. It starts out portraying the grim statistics of the present day and the contemporary characters are nothing if not contemptible (the mother is chasing ... Read More
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I managed to accidentally buy 2 instead of 1 of this DVD, but other than that, one needs to understand what McCarthyism thinking did to this country and the dynamics of fear in a society during social change to get this one, but I love it. Video condition is excellent. New. Both of them. lol
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