Pleasantville

Pleasantville is an American science fiction film carried out by Gary Ross and left to the cinema in 1998.

Synopsis

David (Tobey Maguire) is a reserved teenager, forgetting his gloomy life by looking at the serial Pleasantville , which proceeds in black and white lasting the years 1950 in an ideal city. His/her sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) is rather extravertie and does not miss a chamailler with him. Whereas they dispute the remote control, they are found suddenly in Pleasantville, in black and white, in the skin of two characters, Bud and Mary-Known Parker. David comes from there to live his emotions and to affirm them…

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In connection with film

  • the film entirely was turned colors, then worked again numerically for the scenes in black and white. It briefly held the record of the greatest number of plans for special purposes to the exit of Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat in 1999.
  • When Betty Parker becomes " colorée" , his/her Bud son makes up it in black and white. Actually, it was about a green make-up whose colors arose suitably in black and white. Conversely, when Bill removes its make-up to him, the face of the actress was completely made up in green
  • the two books that Bud reads with the teenagers are the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the trap Cœur ( Catcher in the Rye ), two of the books most often banished in the United States.
  • It was the last film of the actor J.T. Walsh which died 8 months before the exit of film.

Rewards and Nominations

Rewards

Nominations

  • 1999 : Nomination with the Oscar of the best decoration for Jeannine Claudia Oppewall and Jay Binder
  • 1999: Nomination with the Oscar of the best costumes for Judianna Makovsky
  • 1999: Nomination with the Oscar of the best original dramatic music for Randy Newman
  • 1999: Nomination with the Saturn Award of the best science fiction film
  • 1999: Nomination with the Saturn Award of the best scenario for Gary Ross
  • 1999: Nomination with the Saturn Award of the best costumes for Judianna Makovsky

External bonds

  • Card IMDB

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