Green Book

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Green Book

PG-13

2018

2h 10m

Comedy

Drama

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Dr. Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist who's about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation.

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Critics Consensus

Green Book takes audiences on an excessively smooth ride through bumpy subject matter, although Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen's performances add necessary depth.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Feb 22, 2020

Yet Farrelly and his cast deliver the cliches with such sincerity and good cheer that the film won me over anyway.

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Matthew Rozsa

Salon.com

Jan 11, 2020

2.5/4

An enthusiastic and well-intentioned but ultimately clichéd approach is abundantly evident in the final product.

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Claudia Puig

The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE (Japan)

May 3, 2019

1.5/4

Green Book is a glib, caricatured and insensitive movie that reduces an enduring, dangerous societal problem to a calculated fable with a happy ending. [Full review in Japanese]

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Ankit Ojha

Cinema Elite

Jul 9, 2024

2.5/5

The more you think about it in retrospect, [...] the more chances you have of getting madder. (Or it will probably make you feel better about being utterly ignorant about systemic racism; you choose.)

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Ryan McQuade

InSession Film

Apr 4, 2024

C-

The score and editing are not memorable at all, with some scenes just feeling out of place, and a soundtrack that feels too on the nose at times.

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Denise Pieniazek

Puesta en Escena (AR)

Jan 27, 2024

8/10

Green Book tells the story of the friendship between the renowned pianist and composer Don Shirley, and his driver and bodyguard Tony “Lip” Vallelonga in the sixties. The different cultures and social classes will be the main focus of the action.

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Damon

Mar 18, 2025

Beyond great. Historical, unmatched, it deserved all the accolades and more it received.

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matthew h

Jan 18, 2025

it was interesting and fun

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Devra B

@DeeBee27 2 days ago

I loved this movie, not sure what took me so long to watch it. Both characters were so well acted, and were so endearing. Great story—highly recommend!

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Azad F

@mazza44 6 days ago

G Force recommended this movie to me and Mad Dog as one of the greatest movies of all time. He even said it’s up there with, or even better than, the first Gladiator movie. We gave it a watch and were very disappointed. Also, what is it with the blurred background in every scene?

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Ham M

@RT36044019 Oct 22, 2026

I didn’t really get it, sorry, no rewatching even after 20 years.

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Rian M

@SoloUtilitaRian Oct 18, 2026

I’ve watched this three times now and honestly? It just gets better every single watch. It is a proper emotional rollercoaster, hilarious one minute and gut wrenching the next, while genuinely boiling your blood with how rampant the racism is. At its core, it is a brilliant clash of two completely different worlds: Tony Lip is all loud street smart hustle while Dr. Don Shirley brings refined, dignified restraint. Watching them slowly knock down each other walls and learn to work together is pure cinematic magic. Top tier storytelling, brilliant chemistry, and a proper classic you can watch over and over again.

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Synopsis

Dr. Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist who's about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation.

Director: Peter Farrelly
Producer: Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Nick Vallelonga
Screenwriter: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Participant, DreamWorks Pictures, Innisfree Pictures, Charles B. Wessler Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Racial Epithets|Language|Thematic Content|Smoking|Some Violence|Suggestive Material)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 21, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $85.1M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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