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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Mar 10, 2007
Pros: Different, entertaining
Cons: Not appropriate for children under 13 due to frequent sexual reference
Summary: Pleasantville is one of my all time favorite movies, and a recent addition to our movie library. Who’s Who in Pleasantville: Tobey Maguire as David and Bud Reese Witherspoon as Jennifer and Mary Sue William H. Macy as George ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 14, 2011
Pros: Perfect characterizations, warm fuzzies that evolve into razor-sharp barbs.
Cons: At some point, the film must end and the real world resumes.
Summary: Yet it's obvious. You can't ignore it. It's impossible not to cringe when you here the word "coloreds" being used with that unmistakable tone of voice.I'm getting ahead of myself, but the jolt between reality in the present and fantasy of the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 14, 2011
Pros: Great acting, directing, set design.
Cons: Oversexed.
Summary: § "We'll get you fixed up in no time." TV Time, a '90s B&W network station, is broadcasting a Pleasantville Marathon: "24 hours of family values." "Hopelessly geek-ridden" highschooler David (Tobey Maguire) wants to watch ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2008
Pros: For a deeper look into psychological motivations of adolescents, transformation takes on COLOR !
Cons: none
Summary: Sometimes a word needs to be re-defined in order to properly assimilate the constructs built around it. Webster’s dictionary defines ‘pleasant’ as agreeable and ‘mythology ’as the study of legends and stories. A writer who ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 25, 2008
Pros: Awesome visual design, great cast, unique concept
Cons: Metaphors can be heavy-handed at times
Summary: 1998's Pleasantville is a charmingly executed parable about introducing change to a closed society, and the ripple effect that even the smallest changes can produce. Siblings David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are polar ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 14, 2004
Pros: Special effects; Performances;Soundtrack; the fact that the story can be taken at different levels
Cons: Some may find the sex over-emphasized; occasionally loses sublety
Summary: As the movie begins ("Once Upon a Time" in the credits), we're introduced to two true children of the '90's; brother and sister Jennifer and David. They come from a broken home, face a grim future, faced with such problems as a weakening economy and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 29, 2004
Pros: Promotes a good mental attitude.
Funny with good performances.
Cons: Somewhat maudlin at points.
Summary: Picture a world of black and white that lives on an invisible agenda, a way of life that was assigned to all the citizens from some unseen force. They go about business as usual, always, and never break routine. Never, because they don't know how to. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 4, 2003
Pros: Cinematography, 50's nostalgia
Cons: Typical Hollywood bashing of 50's decade
Summary: Two modern day 1990's teens, David and Jennifer, living unhappily dysfunctional lives, get magically ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 13, 2002
Pros: Good parable.
Cons: The moralizing gets way too heavy-handed at times.
Summary: In one of my favorite songs by them, the Talking Heads attack the concept of heaven. Lyrically, David Byrne dismisses heaven as "a place where nothing ever happens". Typical Byrne cynicism to be sure, yet that same concept seems to be what the makers of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 22, 2001
Pros: Wonderful story and acting; deep symbolism & poignant nostalgia
Cons: Previews of the movie when it was released to theaters simplified it,
Summary: When the week of September 10th started for me, I was just beginning a long awaited vacation. I had plans. I was going get some writing in and I was going to go up to Vegas for a couple of days, taking full advantage of the 45 minute airplane flight from ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 27, 2001
Pros: interesting
Cons: drags
Summary: I was first attracted to this movie because of the old fashioned style it was portrayed in. It has an appealing sense to it as it is an original plot, and interesting story.
This movie is about a brother and a sister that were accidentally ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 24, 2001
Pros: interesting visuals. someone got a good performance out of Jeff Daniels!
Cons: a little over-emotional at points.
Summary: David Wagner (Tobey MacGuire) and his twin sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are both children of the 1990's, but they are as different as can be. While Jennifer is super-cool and rather promiscuous, David is obsessed with the world of 50's black and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2001
Pros: Its beautifully made with a wonderful story
Cons: n/a
Summary: This film is all about David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reece Witherspoon). They are from a broken home and are two totally different characters. David is intelligent, unassuming and totally addicted to an old 50’s television show, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 1, 2001
Pros: A visually stunning, well made, well acted film!
Cons: None that I can think of...
Summary: "Pleasantville" is one of the best movies of 1998. It presents us with an original idea for a film, and takes that idea to new levels -- making it whole, complex and stunning all on it's own. It's a film about ideas, about changing the world by changing ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 3, 2001
Pros: the kind of film that makes you glad to be alive
Cons: Nowt!
Summary: It should have been a gimmick movie, one where everyone walked out of the theatre oohing and aahing about the special effects. It should have been the kind of movie that made kids wonder what it would really be like to get sucked into their favourite TV ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2001
Pros: A cute movie
Cons: Many plot points are quickly abandoned.
Summary: Pleasantville is a cute enough movie. It has all the basic plot points to make a decent movie. You have a likeable good guy, you have a bad guy that's really bad and you have a conflict. But it could have been so much more.
Pleasantville is ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 19, 2001
Pros: Makes you think afterwards
Cons: The color blind will not appreciate this as much
Summary: The story of the movie is about the siblings going into the television, acting out their roles in a certain tv series from the 1950's.
Everything is in black and white, and everything is pleasant in their village(Pleasantville).
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2001
Pros: Deep and Emotional Look at "Original Sin"
Cons: If You're the Butt of the Joke, You Won't Get It
Summary: If you saw the poster, watched the trailers or read the video box for Gary Ross’s 1998 movie Pleasantville, you probably have a pretty good idea what it’s about: two teenagers from the real world of our time get "zapped" into a 1950s black and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 26, 2000
Pros: Gives a good look at human nature.
Cons: Gives a good look at human nature!
Summary: This movie gives the viewer in only 2 hours a good
look at human nature and the effect of emotions on
actions and thinking. Especially the psychological
effect that seeing someone else as being different
has on people and their ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 19, 2000
Pros: acting, story, direction
Cons: el none-o!
Summary:
Welcome to Pleasantville, a typical 50's family sitcom that is the object of addiction by a young man who is the biggest nerd this side of the Yucatan Peninsula.
That's pretty much the plot in this wonderful, engaging coming-of-age ... read more
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