Pleasantville
(1998)
as Skip Martin
Taglines: Pleasantville- It's Just Around the Corner
Nothing is as simple as Black and White.
Plot: David, single, lonely and not happy with his life, flees reality by watching Pleasantville - a 1950's b&w soap opera, where everything is just...pleasant. His sister Jennifer, sexually far more active than her brother, gets in a fight with him about a very strange remote control - given to them just seconds after the TV broke by an equally strange repair man - and they suddenly find themselves in Pleasantville, as Bud and Mary-Sue Parker, completely assimilated and therefore black and white, in clothes a little different and with new parents...pleasant ones. David wants to get out of the situation as well as his sister, but whereas he tries to blend in (effortlessly, with his knowledge), she does what she likes to do. One event leads to the other, and suddenly there is a red rose growing in Pleasantville. The more rules are broken, the more colorful life gets in Pleasantville, USA.
Other Noteworthy Actors: Jeff Daniels, Tobey Maguire
Noteworthy Actress: Reese Witherspoon-Phillippe
Paul Quotes: [Skip] Hiya, Bud!
[Bud] Hiya, Skip!
[Skip] Hiya, Bud!
[Bud] Hiya, Skip!
[Skip] Bud, can I ask you a question?
[Bud] Sure.
[Skip] Well, if I was to go up to your sister... What I mean is, if I was to go up to Mary Sue...
[Bud] Oh my God... are we in that episode?
Triva: Filmed entirely in color, which was then removed for the black-and-white portions of the film.
Jeff Daniels also appeared in Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985), another film in which black-and-white and color characters intermingle.
Tobey Maguire and Joan Allen also played mother and son in Ice Storm, The (1997).
Some of the cinematography in the scene at the town meeting recall similar scenes at the Nazi rallies in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.
Goofs: Artwork in art book is shown as owned by the Musee D'Orsay in Paris, which didn't open until 1986.
In the final scenes with the '90's mother crying in the kitchen her eye make-up goes from messy to less messy and then back to the previous level of messy.
The calanders in the movie show 1958. When things start to go awry they use Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" which was recorded on July 1, 1959.
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My Thoughts: I really love this movie. Paul doesnt have a *huge* part, but its good none-the-less. :-) And what we lack in Paul, we make up in Tobey. heh ;-)