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Pleasantville

1976, Movie, NR, 85 mins

Pleasantville: Review

A slow-moving, uneventful film detailing the relationship between a 12-year-old girl, Weber, and her 76-year-old grandmother, Sondergaard (who came out of retirement for this film), at whose country home the girl stays for the summer. Eventually the pair grow close, and Sondergaard relates her determination not to be moved off her land by the uncaring contractors who seek to build on it. The girl is instilled with her grandmother's passion, and when the old woman dies, the l... read more leave a comment

Pleasantville: Cast & Details

Year: 1976
Rated NR

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Cast
Gale Sondergaard: Ora
Suzanne Weber: Sam
Michael Del Viscovo Jr.: Matthew
John Bottoms: George
Robert Hitt: Slattery
Marcia Jean Kurtz: Jo

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Pleasantville: TV Guide News

FALLEN FUNNYMAN REMEMBERED | Today's News: Our Take | 2/27/2006
Don Knotts, who won five Emmys for his portrayal of fumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show — and also is well remembered for playing Three's Company's hideously clad "lady killer" landlord, Mr. Furley — died Friday of pulmonary and respiratory complications. He was 81. "Don was a small man... but everything else about him was large: his mind, his expressions," Andy Griffith tells the Associated Press. "Don was special. There's nobody like him." Knotts' half-century career also included the late-'50s variety show The Steve Allen Show (on which he was an original cast member) and such films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet and 1998's Pleasantville. read more