Green Book

About Green Book

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.

Green Book is a 2018 comedy history film directed by Peter Farrelly. Released in November 2018, it runs 130 minutes.

The film is filed under road movie, southern USA, pianist, and feelgood. The story is adapted from real events.

Viggo Mortensen takes the lead as Tony Lip, Mahershala Ali as Dr. Don Shirley, Linda Cardellini as Dolores, and Sebastian Maniscalco as Johnny Venere. The screenplay is by Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga. It was produced by Cinetic Media and DreamWorks Pictures. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

Rocketman, Straight Outta Compton, and Thelma & Louise make useful companions to Green Book, all filed under 1960s, gay theme, and LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 8.2 out of 10 across 13,459 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.