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i rented this movie with very high hopes .
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this movie got praise as one of the best films of 1998 , and unfortunately , was not as good as i hoped , but was still very intriguing and thought provoking .
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first of all , the casting for this film is great .
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tobey maguire and reese witherspoon are the future of hollywood .
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they play their roles as the parker brother and sister perfectly .
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with a plot as unbelievable as this film , you need chemistry and honest acting from your cast .
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tobey and reese ( bud and mary sue parker ) play their roles perfectly and display their characters with honesty and believability .
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william h . macy , an actor i have grown to love over the past year , turns in another great performance as the tv dad who is torn over his wife , a " colored " person and his friends , the " non-colored " ones .
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he also displays believability and must display a certain lack of chemistry with his wife .
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he does this perfectly and yet again shows why he should be one of the top actors in hollywood .
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joan allen is equally great as betty parker , the ideal tv mom .
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her character is the most ambitious .
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she is very na ? ve , and must display this well to make her character believable and she does just that .
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her lack of chemistry with macy , which the role calls for , and her developed chemistry with jeff daniels is terrific , and if daniels would have been as stellar as the rest of the cast , then this film would even been even better .
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as said before , jeff daniels gives a bad performance .
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his character displays the change going on throughout the town , yet he does not display it with enough conviction .
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his character is very confusing and he is not very believable .
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this film could have been elevated to a whole new level had daniels been able to give a better performance .
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the movie is very provocative .
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it challenges the issues of racism that existed in the past and that still exist today .
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i really was not expecting all of the elements they brought up , but they pulled them off with such flair that it was mind blowing .
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they demonstrate the racism issue without a hitch , but do it in a slow pace .
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the only major flaw in the film besides the performance by daniels is length .
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some films are not meant to be that long .
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pleasantville is one of those films .
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this film could have been so much better had they not moved so slowly to it .
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first , they are amazed by the implementation of color .
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then they want to have it .
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then they do not want to .
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then the war ensues between the colored and non-colored .
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this is all strung out over two hours , which was way too long .
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some movies need a lot of time .
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saving private ryan was a little bit under three hours long and i thought it could have used more time .
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this film is only two hours long , and seems much longer .
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length is everything in films .
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if you can nail down the perfect timing and pace , you can win half the battle .
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pleasantville can move at a good pace at times , but it is not consistent enough .
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overall , pleasantville is a very pleasant and provocative departure from the predictability of most films these days .
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i went in expecting a light-hearted film about change .
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i left learning an important lesson about racism and the way things change .
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luckily , pleasantville teaches this lesson in such a way to make it appeal to all audiences .
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only if it could have done in a shorter amount of time .
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