Green Book
2018 | 130 min | Drama, Comedy, History
Why it’s a Friday Night Flick
Audiences adore it (8.2/10), it won 3 Oscars, it made about 14 times its budget and people are still talking about it. Make plans for this one.
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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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsSolid
77% on Rotten Tomatoes, 69 on Metacritic
- AudiencesVery strong
8.2/10 from 13K viewers
- AwardsVery strong
5 wins, 0 other nominations — won Academy Award for Best Picture; won Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Box office & staying powerVery strong
$322 million worldwide on a $23 million budget
- Buzz & cultural impactVery strong
1.4 million Wikipedia readers in the past year
Where to watch in US
Netflix
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Cast & crew
Directed by Peter Farrelly
- Viggo MortensenTony Lip
- Mahershala AliDr. Don Shirley
- Linda CardelliniDolores
- Sebastian ManiscalcoJohnny Venere
- Dimiter D. MarinovOleg
- Mike HattonGeorge
- P.J. ByrneRecord Exec
- Joe CorteseGio Loscudo
- Mary Agnes NixonCopa Coat Check Girl
- Von LewisBobby Rydell