Pleasantville

Pleasantville is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed, written & co-produced by Gary Ross, which was released on October 23, 1998 by New Line Cinema.

Plot

Impressed by high school student David's (Tobey Maguire) devotion to a 1950s family television show, a mysterious television repairman (Don Knotts) provides him with a means to escape into the black-and-white program with his sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon).

While David initially takes to the simplistic, corny world of the show, Jennifer sets about jolting the characters with doses of reality that unexpectedly bring a little color into their drab existence.

Cast

• Tobey Maguire as David
• Reese Witherspoon as Jennifer
• Jeff Daniels as Bill Johnson
• Joan Allen as Betty Parker
• William H. Macy as George Parker
• J. T. Walsh as Big Bob
• Paul Walker as Skip Martin
• Marley Shelton as Margaret Henderson
• Giuseppe Andrews as Howard
• Jenny Lewis and Marissa Ribisi as Christin and Kimmy
• Kevin Connors and Natalie Ramsey as Bud and Mary Sue Parker
• Jane Kaczmarek as David and Jennifer's mother
• Don Knotts as the TV repairman