pleasantville
View company contact information for Pleasantville on IMDbPro. [1]
Jennifer focuses mainly on her appearance and popularity, while David spends much of his spare time on the couch watching reruns of Pleasantville, a black-and-white 1950s sitcom mirroring such “ideal family” shows such as Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best. [2]
Revealing mistakes: At the very end of the movie, George Parker and Betty Parker are sitting on a bench. [1]
Residential and resort city (1990 pop. [...] Inset: Location of Atlantic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey. [3]
When Mary Sue’s mother, Betty Parker, asks Mary Sue (Jennifer) what happens at Lover’s Lake, Jennifer tells her about sex. [...] Noted film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars calling it “one of the best and most original films of the year”. [2]
We are correct: While David and Jennifer are fighting over the remote control, there’s a knock at the door and a friendly TV repairman (Don Knotts) offers them a device..with more oomphs.” They click it, and they’re both in Pleasantville. [4]
In the original screenplay, the TV Repairman was to be played by Dick Van Dyke and the name of the repair company was Rob’s TV Repair (Rob was Van Dyke’s name on his first show) In a subsequent draft, the name in the script was simply TV Repairman, leaving room for Don Knotts. [1]
Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are four pre-K to fourth grade elementary schools ‘ Leeds Avenue School with 560 students, North Main Street School with 315 students, South Main Street School with 541 students, Washington Avenue School with 477 students ‘ Pleasantville Middle School with 712 students in grades 6 - 8, and Pleasantville High School with 1,105 students in grades 9 through 12. [3]
Mr. Johnson (Jeff Daniels) is at first unsure of how to proceed when Bud (David) doesn’t show up, so he keeps wiping the counter until the surface is worn. [2]
It’s a mystery to his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), so he briefs her: Their names are now Bud and Mary Sue, and their parents are Betty and George Parker (Joan Allen and William H. Macy). [...] It begins by kidding those old black-and-white sitcoms like..Father Knows Best,” it continues by pretending to be a sitcom itself, and it ends as a social commentary of surprising power. [4]
There were 6,402 households out of which 36.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.0% were married couples living together, 24.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.8% were non-families. [3]
A teenager named David languishes in front of the tube, watching a rerun of a 1950s sitcom named..Pleasantville,” in which everybody is always wholesome and happy. [4]
Sources:
[1] Pleasantville (1998)
[2] Pleasantville (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Pleasantville: Weather from Answers.com
[4] Pleasantville :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews