Green Card (1990) (original) (raw)

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Original title

Green Card

Year

1990

Running time

108 min.

Country

United States

Director

Screenwriter

Cast

Music

Cinematography

Producer

Genre

Romance. Comedy | Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

With the help of his lawyer, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie MacDowell), a prim and repressed young lady from a privileged life in Connecticut. Bronte, who has agreed to the scheme for her own self-serving reasons, is exasperated when the Immigration & Naturalization Service investigates their case, and she and Georges, whom she detests, must spend time together studying each other's lives to avoid disaster. The fallout, and how it ends, is infinitely more delightful than your run-of-the-mill Hollywood romantic comedy, and the very ending itself stops deliciously short of where Hollywood would feel compelled to drag the story. Fine performances are given by MacDowell, Depardieu--who is fiercely charming pounding the keyboard of a Steinway at an upper class Manhattan dinner party--and Bebe Neuwirth, who is perfect as an upper-class child turned artist who revels in her irresponsibility. -

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Awards

1990: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

1990: 2 Golden Globes: Comedy, Actor (Depardieu). Nominated for Actress (McDowell)

1991: Nominated for BAFTA: Best Original Screenplay

1990: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

Critics' reviews

• Depardieu and MacDowell seem to share an uncommon honesty and generosity of spirit"
• "Despite its lush photography, Green Card has the texture of peanut butter. It's more romantic than comedic, but there isn't an abundance of either."
• "Green Card demonstrates that explicit nudity is not necessarily an essential ingredient in creating an erotic atmosphere, but that it does take a director's sensitive understanding of the various ways in which emotion creates desire"
• "Although a thin premise endangers its credibility at times, Green Card is a genial, nicely played romance"
• "That understated style at times makes Green Card seem too stiff and vacuous, as if Weir were inspired by the surface of a Jane Austen work (...) But the film is magnificently redeemed by Depardieu"
• "Sometimes a plate of spaghetti with a simple tomato sauce is just the thing, and this is the movie equivalent of that."

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• 91 My Favorite Romantic Comedies (60)

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