Green Book (2018)
Drama
Director: Peter Farrelly.
An excellent film, genius, a classic movie
Synopsis
Tony ‘Lip’ Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) scrapes a living working as a nightclub bouncer in New York and lives in a one bedroom apartment with his beloved wife Dolores (Linda Cardellini) and their two young sons.
Despite being devoted to them, he accepts an offer from the refined, cultured pianist Dr Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) to drive between gigs for a daring tour of the Deep South, daring because Shirley is black. Despite both aggravating the other, a respect and friendship develops as they encounter hostility and hypocrisy.
Review by @Reelreviewer
This smart, deeply moving subversion of Driving Miss Daisy (1989) is up for five Oscars...and may well scoop a few of them.
It's a race relations drama that, given the exposition - black, cultured man and white, slobbish employee travel through the Deep South - has all the hallmarks of being a mawkish, obvious tract on the evils of racism and prejudice.
Thankfully, in the surprisingly delicate hands of Peter Farrelly (and how surprising, considering he was director or writer of some of the least subtle, blockbuster comedies of the past two decades, such as Shallow Hall, There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), Green Book sidesteps such pitfalls and emerges as a moving, mature contemplation of courage and dignity when faced with hostility and hypocrisy.
It goes without saying that Mortensen and Ali are equally superb.
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Cast & credits
2hrs 10 mins/13mins. Participant Media/Dreamworks Pictures/Innisfree Pictures/Cinetic Media. (12a)
Producers: Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler.
Writers: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly.
Camera: Sean Porter.
Music: Kris Bowers.
Sets: Tim Galvin.
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, P.J. Byrne, Joe Cortese
