Green Book (2018)
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Directed by Peter Farrelly
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
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6 recommendations
- @goldenyears7.2/10Prime Video · 2mo ago
“The chemistry between the two leads makes this touching road movie both entertaining and genuinely moving.”
- @UrsusNotHorribilus5y ago
“This movie has a weak understanding of not only the truth in the relationship between the two characters based on actual people, but simplifies the subject of race relations. It was a terrible choice for best picture.”
- @Wuchak9.0/106y ago
“A white streetwise bouncer and an articulate black pianist tour the Deep South in 1962 A tough, working class Italian New Yawker (Viggo Mortensen) is forced to take a gig driving a refined African-American concert pianist (Mahershala Ali) through the Midwest and Deep South in 1962.”
- @ThePeruvianPost9.0/106y ago
“"Frequently, when someone tries to portray the overwhelming decade of the 1960s, they usually misuse the concept of discrimination towards African Americans, which is accurate to describe this social issue.”