The story begins with David and his sister Jennifer fighting over the new remote control that was delivered to them by an eerie TV repairman, played by Don Knotts. A button is pressed on the magical remote control and David and Jennifer are transported into the television show “Pleasantville”, which David watches religiously. David and Jennifer are transformed into Bud and Mary Sue, who are the children of George and Betty. At first Bud (David) likes the chance to live in the town. He thinks it is a n

eat town and he wants to conform and just “play along” until he and Mary Sue (Jennifer) can find a way out of Pleasantville. But Mary Sue does not want to just play along. She ends up taking Skip up to Lovers Lane, and forces herself on him. Soon after, it seems as if all the teenagers are up at lover’s lane having sex. After most of the teens had sex they began to gain color and see color. The people in the town begin to start thinking on their own. The conservative black and white people of the town do not like the change in “colored” people of the town and become prejudice towards them. After getting arrested for painting on the side of a building with illegal colored paint, Bud tricks the mayor into getting mad at him and suddenly the mayor gains color. The whole town was color after that incident with the mayor.

Pleasantville was sexually repressive also. Before Mary Sue introduced sex to Pleasantville there was no sex there, and even married people slept separately in single beds. The discovery of sex was a major cause of change among the people of Pleasantville and the Mayor of the town understood the threat that it posed to the stability of the town, so he made it against Pleasantville law to go up to Lovers Lane.

Pleasantville was racist. The power structure of Pleasantville was clearly white, although the main point in the film was that the black-and-white townspeople of Pleasantville r

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