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.
Pleasantville has generally received very positive reviews.
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Pleasantville was released in 1998 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 702 reviews, giving Pleasantville (1998) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 74%.
With a score of 76%, Pleasantville is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1998 with similar scores include films like Buffalo '66, Out of Sight and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
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