The Green Book - The Accessible Classic Film Club

Green Book

An exciting comedy-drama, winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture.

A tough security guard starts working as the private driver of an African-American jazz musician and joins him on a concert tour through the racist American South of the 1960s.

USA, 1962. Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) could not be more different. Shirley is a world-renowned, gifted pianist, a refined and educated African-American who enjoys the finest and most luxurious things the world has to offer. Lip, by contrast, is an Italian-American bouncer who never finished high school but knows how to solve any problem—if not with words, then with his fists.

When Dr. Shirley is invited on a concert tour of the American South, he decides to hire a driver who will also serve as a kind of bodyguard—the South is not the most welcoming place for a Black man in that period... He hires Lip, and the two embark on a moving human journey during which they face racism and humiliation, but also experience surprising and humorous moments. A journey in which they are forced to set aside their natural differences in order to survive—and even thrive—on the trip of a lifetime.

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali. Director: Peter Farrelly.

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