Pleasantville . Austin Chronicle . 10-26-98

Pleasantville

DIRECTED BY: Gary Ross

REVIEWED: 10-26-98

Siblings Maguire and Witherspoon find themselves mysteriously remote-controlled out of the present day and into the black-and-white world of their favorite Fifties family sitcom. In this high-concept movie, an entire fictional town gets to experience life as real-live people -- and in color. Itís a television-age parable, with Don Knotts as the magic TV repairman who gives the kids the remote control key to fairyland. It marks the directing debut of Gary Ross, who also wrote the script. Ross is an old hand at this kind of fantastical material; he also penned the scripts for Big and Dave.

--Marjorie Baumgarten

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