Pleasantville
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1998-09-17
Runtime: 124 mins
Director: Gary Ross
Spoken language: English
Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Original title: Pleasantville
Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Larger Than Life Productions, Juno Pix
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Tobey Maguire
Reese Witherspoon
William H. Macy
Joan Allen
Jeff Daniels
J. T. Walsh
Paul Walker
Don Knotts
Marley Shelton
Jane Kaczmarek
Giuseppe Andrews
Jenny Lewis
Marissa Ribisi
Denise Dowse
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