Pleasantville
Nothing is as simple as black and white.
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.
- Director
- Gary Ross
- Worldwide
- $50M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Pleasantville returned 0.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $60M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $50M
- Release date
- Sep 17, 1998
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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