Green Book

Green Book
USA | 2018 | 130’ | DCP | Colour | English | Group: B

Director: Peter Farrelly

1962. USA. When Frank Vallelonga aka “Tony Lip”, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book”, a travel guide to safe lodging, dining and business options for African Americans during the era of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Confronted with racism, danger—as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Farrelly worked as a writer before entering the film business, publishing his first novel Outside Providence in 1988 (it was later made into a film by Michael Corrente). He is best known for a string of star-driven blockbuster comedies made his with his brother Bobby that began in 1994 with Dumb And Dumber and continued through Kingpin (1996), There’s Something About Mary (1998), Me, Myself And Irene (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), Stuck On You (2003), Fever Pitch (2005), The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and Dumb And Dumber To (2014). Most recently he created and executive produces TV series Loudermilk.