Pleasantville (1998)
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				movie info		5: excellent
				tobey maguire		4: very good
				jeff daniels		3: average
				reese witherspoon		2: fair
				william h macy		1: poor
				martytown rating:		name (required)
				average rating at martytown: 5.00

Very inventive look at "the good old days" in the 1950s, and how maybe things weren't as good as we've been told (or remember). The movie starts out by sending two teenagers from the present (Maguire and Witherspoon) back in time to essentially a black and white sitcom life. They're actually living in the sitcom. Life is bland and two-dimensional, but eventually they stir things up and ask questions about why things are this way. As some of the people in Pleasantville become more curious and three-dimensional, they are seen in color rather than black and white. It's a great and thoughtful movie, and one of the year's best.
— marty