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Green Book (2018)

"Inspired by a True Friendship."
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👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 73%
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Runtime
2h 10m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.2/10 (12,670 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
69

Cast

Viggo Mortensen as Tony Lip · 74% avg
Mahershala Ali as Dr. Don Shirley · 74% avg
Linda Cardellini as Dolores · 70% avg
Sebastian Maniscalco as Johnny Venere
Mike Hatton as George
P.J. Byrne as Record Exec · 71% avg
Joe Cortese as Gio Loscudo

Is Green Book good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 73%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#93 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#3 / 326 · 2018
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 16 · Peter Farrelly

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly, inspired by the true story of the friendship between Dr. Don Shirley, a virtuoso classical and jazz pianist played by Mahershala Ali, and Tony Vallelonga, a tough Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx played by Viggo Mortensen, who is hired as Shirley's driver and bodyguard for a concert tour through the Deep South in 1962. The title refers to "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a real travel guide published from 1936 to 1967 that listed hotels, restaurants, and gas stations where African Americans could be served safely during the era of racial segregation.

As the refined, cultured Shirley and the rough-edged, prejudiced Tony travel deeper into the Jim Crow South, each man challenges the other's assumptions and worldview, forging an unlikely friendship that transforms them both. Mahershala Ali won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, following his win for Moonlight, becoming the first Black actor to win the award twice. Viggo Mortensen gained 45 pounds for the role and adopted a convincing Bronx Italian-American accent and physicality.

Green Book won the Academy Award for Best Picture, though the film generated significant controversy — some critics called it a simplistic, feel-good narrative that centered a white character's racial awakening over the Black character's experience, and Don Shirley's family disputed the film's accuracy. Despite the debate, the film earned $321 million worldwide on a $23 million budget.

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