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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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88
New York Daily News
Giddily inventive.
80
The A.V. Club
To concentrate on the minor faults of a fable as beautiful and unusual as Pleasantville would be missing the point.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Delightful as it often is, the picture suffers fom the same structural and thematic tidiness, even smugness, that it nominally opposes.
70
L.A. Weekly
The results are charming if rarely thrilling, with outstanding performances from Joan Allen and William H. Macy.
70
Time
An epic-size, largely entertaining parable of repression and awakening.
