Pleasantville (1998)
Directed by Gary Ross · Cinematography by John Lindley
PG-13124 min67 frames
FantasyComedyDrama
Nothing is as simple as black and white.
Stills, screencaps & shots from Pleasantville
16 of 67 frames — the full set is searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood with a free account.
Pleasantville — official trailer
What is Pleasantville about?
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
Pleasantville is a 1998 American teen fantasy comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Gary Ross. It stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, and Reese Witherspoon, with Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, and Jane Kaczmarek in supporting roles.
Second paragraph from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where can you watch Pleasantville?
US availability for Pleasantville (1998). Data by JustWatch, listings on TMDB. Availability changes — check the provider for current listings.
Who stars in Pleasantville?
Who made Pleasantville?
What does the cinematography of Pleasantville look like?
Across 67 sampled frames, Pleasantville builds its coverage from medium shots (46% of the sample), with close-ups (21%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer John Lindley keeps 36% of it in soft, low-key light. 40% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Focus stays shallow in 60% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1950s.
What is the color palette of Pleasantville?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Pleasantville (1998) are #fbfbfb, #030203, #313131, #484745, #898888, #cbcbc9 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#fbfbfb#030203#313131#484745#898888#cbcbc9
See the full Pleasantville colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.
Pleasantville ranks in
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 67 frames of Pleasantville (1998), and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.
Techniques in this film
More films by Gary Ross
More Fantasy films
Cast, trailer and streaming data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.