Green Book

After the Copacabana nightclub closes for renovations for two months in this captivating, factually inspired, well-acted, thought-provoking, critically acclaimed, 130-minute film that gets its title from Victor Hugh Green's guidebook The Negro Motorist Green Book geared for African-American travelers, food-loving, working-class, Italian-American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), who lives with his wife (Linda Cardellini) and two sons in New York City, forms an unlikely lifelong friendship when he accepts a job as chauffeur and security for proud, talented, heavy-drinking, Jamaican classical pianist Dr. Donald Walbridge Shirley (Mahershala Ali) as they encounter ugly, pervasive racism while touring the Deep South with his Don Shirley Trio in 1962.
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