Movie: Green Book

Uplifting true story of a friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line

Green Book is the uplifting true story of a friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line, directed by Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary).

When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali in an Oscar-winning performance), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans.

Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humour, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Winner of 3 OSCARS including Best Film, Supporting Actor & Best Original Screenplay

Director Peter Farrelly. USA. Running Time 130 mins Cert: 12A

Viggo Mortensen
An American actor, author, photographer, poet, and painter. Born in New York to a Danish father and American mother. He is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

Mortensen films include Witness (1985), Carlito's Way (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Daylight (1996), Psycho (1998), A Perfect Murder (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1999), and 28 Days (2000).

Mortensen received international attention in the early 2000s with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. 

In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence and two years later, another Cronenberg film, Eastern Promises (2007), earned him further critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. 

A third film with Cronenberg in A Dangerous Method (2011) resulted in a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture. 

Mahershala Ali
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, known professionally as Mahershala Ali, is an American actor who is a recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Ali began his career as a regular on television series, such as Crossing Jordan (2001–2002) and Threat Matrix (2003–2004), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–2007). 

His first major film release was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). 

He gained wider attention for his supporting role in the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2013–2019). 

He featured as Boggs in the final two films of The Hunger Games film series and as Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the Netflix superhero series Marvel's Luke Cage (2016).

For playing a drug dealer in the drama film Moonlight (2016), Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar for acting.

He won a second Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). 

In 2019, he played the lead role of a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective.

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