TY  - GEN
N2  - Twin siblings David and Jennifer couldn't be more different: she curses, smokes, and sleeps around; David is a prototypical nerdy outcast. Then, one dark and stormy night, they're sucked into the TV and Pleasantville: a perfect suburban Disneyland suffused with church-social niceness and Rotary Club boosterism. Jennifer despises it all. So, like a pint-size Lauren Bacall, she refuses to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl and introduces one of the boys to sex, after which this bland, black and white world magically begins changing into color. Through the combined forces of sex and rock 'n' roll, it becomes clear that the things that make life worth living--passion, knowledge, and love--are far removed from safety, stability, and bland sterility. Before too long, the whole town is wondering: what's outside Pleasantville?
AB  - Twin siblings David and Jennifer couldn't be more different: she curses, smokes, and sleeps around; David is a prototypical nerdy outcast. Then, one dark and stormy night, they're sucked into the TV and Pleasantville: a perfect suburban Disneyland suffused with church-social niceness and Rotary Club boosterism. Jennifer despises it all. So, like a pint-size Lauren Bacall, she refuses to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl and introduces one of the boys to sex, after which this bland, black and white world magically begins changing into color. Through the combined forces of sex and rock 'n' roll, it becomes clear that the things that make life worth living--passion, knowledge, and love--are far removed from safety, stability, and bland sterility. Before too long, the whole town is wondering: what's outside Pleasantville?
T1  - Pleasantville
DA  - c1999.
CY  - New York, NY :
AU  - Ross, Gary,
AU  - Kilik, Jon.
AU  - Degus, Robert J.
AU  - Soderbergh, Steven,
AU  - Maguire, Tobey,
AU  - Daniels, Jeff,
AU  - Allen, Joan,
AU  - Macy, William H.,
AU  - Walsh, J. T.
AU  - Knotts, Don,
AU  - Shelton, Marley.
AU  - Kaczmarek, Jane.
AU  - Witherspoon, Reese,
AU  - Lindley, John
AU  - Newman, Randy.
AU  - Apple, Fiona.
AU  - Anderson, Paul Thomas.
CN  - PN1997
CN  - PN1997
PB  - New Line Productions :
PB  - Distributed by New Line Home Entertainment,
PP  - New York, NY :
LA  - In English with optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned.
PY  - c1999.
N1  - Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1998.
N1  - Special features: Audio commentary by writer/director Gary Ross; Isolated score with commentary by composer Randy Newman; Storyboard gallery [slides]; Featurettes: The art of "Pleasantville" (32 min.); Fiona Apple music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (4 min.); Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); Cast and crew [text feature]; Color television tune up (1 min.); DVD-ROM features [requires a DVD-ROM drive, Internet access, Web browser].
ID  - 706333
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - High school students
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Television and teenagers
KW  - Nineteen fifties
KW  - Culture conflict
SN  - 0780625374
SN  - 9780780625372
TI  - Pleasantville
ER  -