Pleasantville

"At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song."

"Nothing is as simple as Black and White."

"Reliable TV Repair · Well fix you for good."

"Though writer/director Gary Ross works in some heavy-handed strokes, his portrait of stodgy Eisenhower America dazzles with some of the loveliest imagery of any 1990s film."

"Hollywood satire is not usually this enjoyable: Both savage and silly, Pleasantville is an absolute blast."

"It never rains, the highs and lows rest at 72 degrees, the fire department exists only to rescue treed cats, and the basketball team never misses the hoop. … Pleasantville is a false hope. Davids journey tells him only that there is no "right" life, no model for how things are "supposed to be.""

"Parents need to know that Pleasantville raises many ideas about modern troubled times versus old-time simplicity, as well as freedom, responsibility and tolerance. The movie contains many sexual situations, as the naïve TV characters learn about sex for the first time, but the movie handles them gracefully. … High schoolers may appreciate the way that the twins, at first retreating in different ways from the problems of the modern world, find that the rewards of the examined life make it ultimately worthwhile. Parents and teens alike will find many things to think and talk about after watching Pleasantville, including the movies parallels to (book burning) and American Jim Crow laws ("No colored" signs), and the challenges of independent thinking. Also intriguing is the path of Jennifers character. At first, she thinks that it is sex that turns the black and white characters into color. But when she stays "pasty," she realizes that the colors reveal something more subtle and meaningful — the willingness to challenge the accepted and opening oneself up to honest reflection about ones own feelings and longings."

"William H. Macy - George Parker"

"Pleasantville — Its Just Around the Corner."

"Look, you cant always like what you do. Sometimes you just do it because its your job. And even if you dont like it, you just gotta do it anyway."

"Pleasantville is a morality tale concerning the values of contemporary suburban America by holding that social landscape up against both the Utopian and the dystopian visions of suburbia that emerged in the 1950s."

"Where am I going to see colors like that? Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they dont even know how lucky they are."