1998 · fantasy · drama · satire
Pleasantville
Directed by Gary Ross2h 4m1998
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.
Our read: Pleasantville (1998) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · drama · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
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