Fall Film Series

Pleasantville
Friday, November 19 | 8 pm
Museum Auditorium

The "sunshine" part of our Norman Rockwell: Sunshine and Shadow film series concludes with Pleasantville. When it was released in 1998, Pleasantville was considered a film without stars. Before Spider Man and Walk the Line, Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon were just two young, hopeful actors. Their careers were boosted by roles in this offbeat film that cleverly questions our desire to go back to the uncomplicated small-town life idealized in many of Rockwell's paintings.

Pleasantville
(1998) Written and directed by Gary Ross. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen. (124 min.) PG-13

David’s pained adolescence fades when he escapes, via black-and-white TV reruns, to a peaceful little sitcom town named Pleasantville. Don Knotts (in his last film) plays a TV repairman with a magical remote that zaps him and his reluctant sister into the small screen. But, utopia can be suffocating.

Tickets
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others

Tickets are available online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person at the Museum Box Office.

Upcoming:
Have a great holiday season! Join us January 7, when the Winter Film Series begins the "shadow" part of our Rockwell series with Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life.

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Now Open

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011

The NCMA gives America’s beloved artist a home for the holidays! Featuring 40 original paintings and 323 Saturday Evening Post covers, American Chronicles offers a rich, in-depth look at Rockwell’s six-decade career and the impact of his images on popular culture. Plan your visit now.

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Before the movie, visit the galleries or relax with a glass of wine from our Friday night wine bar in the West Building Lobby, open 5:30–8 pm on Fridays.

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