The very worthy winner of the coveted Grolsch People’s Choice Award, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book is the dictionary definition of crowd-pleaser. Featuring one of the funniest scripts I’ve seen in ages, it has immense relevance to America’s current flareup of racial animosity. It’s the true story of an Italian-American driver Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) hired in the early ’60s to drive renowned African-American pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) on a concert tour through racist bible-belt states. From casting, to direction, to wry witty writing, this movie fires on all cylinders. [Review]
It stole the thunder away from "A Star Is Born," which was supposed to be the front-runner to win. However, not only did it not nab the prize but it didn't even finish in top three voting. I've been telling people the entire week that the response to "A Star is Born," although positive was not as immense as people expected it to be. The film is fine -- that's about it.
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