Conflicts and clashes of all sizes occur throughout the movie. The conflicts cover a wide variety of subjects, from sexual morals to discovering something new about one's own self. The movie plays out individual struggles along with tying these conflicts in with a larger story line.
             The setting of the story is a 1990's family. The parents are divorced, the son is a TV watching geek and the daughter is rebellious and popular at school. The Mom is leaving for a weekend trip, Jennifer, the daughter, has a date that night and David plans an evening home watching his favorite oldies television show, "Pleasantville". They fight over the remote control and it winds up getting broken. A TV repairman shows up out of nowhere on their doorstep offering to fix the remote. The repairman quizzes David on Pleasantville trivia and after he answers all of his questions correctly, he gives David a "special remote". The brother and sister fight over the remote and get zapped into the television show "Pleasantville". This sets up a majority of the clashes with a 1990's brother and sister team going back in time to a perfect small town family of 1958.
             The time period chosen for the television show was intentional. The oldies television show, Pleasantville is set up from the very beginning as a perfect community where nothing ever goes wrong. A commercial for the show describes it as being a "kinder and gentler time". The family is portrayed as a typical family of four. The Dad works, Mom stays home to cook, clean and see after the kids and the son and daughter are smart, courteous and clean cut. 1958 was a time before color television was common place, there was no war, and everything was right in the world.
             This perfect world was contrasted by the portrayal of the 1990's version the brother and sister were facing in their future. There were scenes from the classrooms where the teachers had ...