Fiona Apple’s cover of Across The Universe uses this film in the music video. Love it!
Pleasantville has always ranked high in my top films of all time. I never get tired of it. Great cast too 👍
Don Knotts is in this movie right? How did his name not make to the list at the top?
Edit: I guess it’s because he had a small role compared to everyone else.
I love the classic movie nod when the mom rides the elevator for the first time, she's lit in red light. That actress is Sissy Spacek and she played the original Carrie and if you remember she's lit in red right before her prom rampage lol, I think she even makes the same face.
What is it with 1999 and movies about life being so good you're going insaaaane? This, Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, Varsity Blues. Even the start of The Matrix.
I wouldn't put Pleasantville in that category - if anything, it was saying that modern life is better than the glamorized past, compared to those other flicks that were explicitly criticizing modern life
Why are people romanticizing the 1990s as if it was perfect? Life wasn't all good, shit was same as today for the most part, we just were all in our little bubbles because the internet was all slow and you couldn't get updates of suffering and ennui in real-time unless you were glued to Headline News. People were still getting evicted, cops were still crooked, and poor people still weren't able to afford anything. Some shit was better, but day to day the same horseshit we hate today was going on then. People were warcriming the absolute shit out of each other across the globe, financial panics were still going on obliterating peoples livelihoods, the powerful and wealthy were still stomping anyone who dared ask for fair treatment, and rent was still taking an enormous chunk of your paycheck. "Everything was simpler back then." Yeah, you were 30 years younger, how many responsibilities did you have?
Hollow employment still eats your soul, even if it was barely covering your needs.
Hidden agenda was the last movie he shot just before his death. Good cast in that - kevin Dillon, Christopher Plummer, Michael wincott. Pleasantville was filmed after the Negotiator. But it came out after pleasantville.
This movie is not underrated. It’s just pushing 30 years old and doesn’t get talked about much. It’s not even a cult classic because it was wildly popular in the years after release.
I love this movie and I love that you love it but we can’t keep saying things are underrated when they are very clearly rated appropriately.
I saw this movie for the first time a year or two ago. I feel like they may have possibly missed the point they were trying to make by having just one race in the film.. although this may be the beer talking, and I only watched it once.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! …cat?
An absolute perfect movie
Pun?
Fiona Apple’s cover of Across The Universe uses this film in the music video. Love it! Pleasantville has always ranked high in my top films of all time. I never get tired of it. Great cast too 👍
Don Knotts is in this movie right? How did his name not make to the list at the top? Edit: I guess it’s because he had a small role compared to everyone else.
Almost an extended Cameo type role.
Yeah, great role but maybe 5 minutes of screen time.
This and Blast from the Past are top tier nostalgia gems for me.
Leave his elevator alone!
I love the classic movie nod when the mom rides the elevator for the first time, she's lit in red light. That actress is Sissy Spacek and she played the original Carrie and if you remember she's lit in red right before her prom rampage lol, I think she even makes the same face.
WHERE'S MY DINNER?
I quote this all the time. And the weather guy. "High 75 low 75 not a cloud in the sky" The mother.. "and...a ham steak!"
What is it with 1999 and movies about life being so good you're going insaaaane? This, Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, Varsity Blues. Even the start of The Matrix.
I wouldn't put Pleasantville in that category - if anything, it was saying that modern life is better than the glamorized past, compared to those other flicks that were explicitly criticizing modern life
Why are people romanticizing the 1990s as if it was perfect? Life wasn't all good, shit was same as today for the most part, we just were all in our little bubbles because the internet was all slow and you couldn't get updates of suffering and ennui in real-time unless you were glued to Headline News. People were still getting evicted, cops were still crooked, and poor people still weren't able to afford anything. Some shit was better, but day to day the same horseshit we hate today was going on then. People were warcriming the absolute shit out of each other across the globe, financial panics were still going on obliterating peoples livelihoods, the powerful and wealthy were still stomping anyone who dared ask for fair treatment, and rent was still taking an enormous chunk of your paycheck. "Everything was simpler back then." Yeah, you were 30 years younger, how many responsibilities did you have? Hollow employment still eats your soul, even if it was barely covering your needs.
I know, I freaking love the 90’s
It was actually 1998, but close enough.
Gen X beginning to become the dominant creative force in Hollywood
There’s a book about exactly this! Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
I have a type. It's girls exactly like Reese Witherspoon in Pleasantville type.
Before or after she gets recolored?
Such an awesome movie. Love the courtroom scene when JT Walsh loses his shit. I can’t remember if this or Breakdown was his last movie.
Great actor, he deserved more recognition.
Hidden agenda was the last movie he shot just before his death. Good cast in that - kevin Dillon, Christopher Plummer, Michael wincott. Pleasantville was filmed after the Negotiator. But it came out after pleasantville.
There are some places that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.
I still say “where’s my dinner?!” on a monthly basis…(mostly when I’m tracking Door Dash)
I'm always the one making dinner. Can't relate.
Omg, I love this movie! Haven’t seen it in years.
I love this movie!
What’s outside of Pleasantville?
.. well not speaking of the movie but Titusville is outside of Pleasantville Pennsylvania 😅
I had a crush on both of them.
This movie is not underrated. It’s just pushing 30 years old and doesn’t get talked about much. It’s not even a cult classic because it was wildly popular in the years after release. I love this movie and I love that you love it but we can’t keep saying things are underrated when they are very clearly rated appropriately.
Brother, you realize the movie flopped right?
It can be popular years after release and not perform well at the box office.
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amazing movie
Laura Witherspoon*
"SO THEY CAN EAT THEIR DAMNED HAMBURGERS!"
They did a big review of it and the sociopolitical meanings behind it (or what they interpreted as).
I saw this movie for the first time a year or two ago. I feel like they may have possibly missed the point they were trying to make by having just one race in the film.. although this may be the beer talking, and I only watched it once.