Addicted to this utopian world, David immerses himself in "Pleasantville" as an innocent escape from the trouble-plagued real world he must share with his ultra-hip, totally popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon). But one evening, life takes a bizarre twist when a peculiar repairman (Don Knotts)gives him a strange remote control, which zaps David and his sister straight into Pleasantville.

Trapped in a radically different dimension of sight and sound, David and Jennifer find themselves cast as members of the TV family, The Parkers. David has become "Bud" and Jennifer has been transformed into "Mary Sue," and they are surrounded by the black and white suburbia that once kept David glued to the television for hours.

It doesn't take long to discover that there's no news, weather or sports when you're living in a black and white paradise where everything is always...pleasant. Books have no words, the high school basketball team always wins, and nobody ever questions why things are so perfect. Initially, David revels in the prozac-like haze that has gripped Pleasantville. But when Jennifer brings her Nineties-like attitude into this unsuspecting era of blandness, things start to happen in living color.

All the repressed desires of life in the '50s begin to boil up through the people of Pleasantville, changing their lives in strange and wonderful ways that none of them had even dared to dream of, until they were visited by two kids from the real world.

Gary Ross, the Oscar nominated screenwriter of Big and Dave, makes his directorial debut with his original screenplay, Pleasantville, starring Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Don Knotts, and J.T. Walsh.