Wide release 11/21/19
Viewed 12/27/18 at Carlisle Theater with Sandy
IMBd: 8.3/10
IMBd: 8.3/10
RT Critic: 82 Audience: 94
Critic's Consensus: Green Booktakes audiences on a surprisingly smooth ride through potentially bumpy subject matter, fueled by Peter Farrelly's deft touch and a pair of well-matched leads.
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 5
Directed by Peter Farrelly
Universal Pictures
Based on a true story
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
My comments: I wish they had chosen another name for this movie. I can understand why they used it and how hard it might'v been to come up with a proper title, but this wasn't a good one for such a wonderful movie. Based on a true story (I always wonder how much), it takes us back to the early 60s into the black and white communities of the deep South. Oh, how I get pissed off! It's all about a tough white Italian American from the Bronx taking on the job of driver for two months for a cultured black pianist who is performing in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, etc. It's about how they slowly come around to becoming not just employer/employee, but like-minded friends. Lots of gentle humor, earnestness, and head-shaking, maddening prejudice.
RT/ IMDb Summary When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.
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