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Actor: Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gérard Depardieu, Gregg Edelman, Robert ProskyBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- In the same romantic spirit as PRETTY WOMAN and GHOST, GREEN CARD lights up the screen with its irresistible charm and lighthearted humor! The fun starts when two strangers (Andie MacDowell, SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE), and Academy Award(R)-nominee Gerard Depardieu (CYRANO DE BERGERAC) agree to a marriage of convenience -- thinking it's going to be hassle-free. She'll get to live in the apar
Movie Reviews of Green Card
Movie Review: "And the letters will always say the same thing ... when are you coming, cherie?"
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of my favorite romantic comedies. From the way they are when they meet, it's clear that Bronte and Georges are not impressed with each other (he wants a green card; she wants a high-end apartment with a huge greenhouse). They see the other as a means to get what they want, not as actual people. But when they are forced to live together in order to "cram" for a detailed interview, they get to know each other as people. More importantly, they get to know the REAL people beyond what everybody else sees.
One touching scene is when they're writing love letters to each other to support some of their more wild stories of Georges having gone to Africa to write music. ("Africa" happens to be the name of the cafe where they met and plays an important part in the final scene.) They spend the days "studying" - talking over their past with the other, and even take pictures of themselves on phony vacations. Part of their studying involves looking through childhood pictures. When Georges is looking through Bronte's childhood photo album, he spots a picture of her first boyfriend. "And it was he who first kissed those lips?" he asks softly. It is Georges who is the first to speak aloud of a kiss, giving some indication that kissing Bronte had definitely crossed his mind already. The sexual tension only gets stronger from there. Flustered, Bronte ends the conversation and heads to her bedroom, keeping a hesitant eye (and, it seems, a hopeful one) on her bedroom door. George, who sleeps on the sofa, is watching her bedroom door from the other side. Both want to approach the other ... but do not give in. A knock on Bronte's door and a question, "What side of the bed do you sleep on?" Bronte answers him, and he responds casually that he'll take the opposite side. "Okay," she says, and watches the door even harder. She doesn't tell him no ... but she clearly has no idea what to expect. Georges does NOT enter -- it turns out he was only referring to which answer he would give the INS official as to what side he sleeps on.
There is an interesting scene in which Bronte trys to gain her equilibrium. Georges has gotten under her skin. After a day in the park where she and Georges have studied (and clearly had fun doing so), she spots her boyfriend Phil, and quickly tells Georges she'll see him later. She goes on a date with Phil and seems to be thinking of Georges, her attention wandering while Phil seems content to focus on himself or his latest cause. When Phil drops Bronte off at the door, his attentions get too amorous ... and Bronte turns him down. When her refusals get louder and Phil remains steadfast, Georges makes his presence known. Phil demands to know who Georges is, and Georges roars angrily, "I'M THE HUSBAND!" Phil leaves, and a furious Bronte throws Georges out. With nowhere to go, Georges sleeps just outside the apartment door in the hallway, awakened by a neighbor who thinks he's a homeless man. Bronte lets him in, and the two fabricate a cover story that he forgot his key and didn't want to wake Bronte. Once inside, the two discuss the previous night ... and the sexual tension rises to a crescendo during an argument where Georges defends his actions, saying that he lost control when Phil was bothering her and adamantly stating that Phil is not right for her. They circle each other, hurling personal barbs ... and the argument becomes a tango of sorts. Right in the climax of this argument, when Bronte says that she now realizes she hates him (you can tell she doesn't mean that), Georges congratulates her on her first feeling ... and looks up to see the time. They both realize they are due for their interview with the INS. The argument forgotten, they immediately work as a team. They make a mad dash across NYC to get to their interview ... including running through Central Park, hand-in-hand.
The passion we see in the final scene was worth the wait. It had been building up and Andie and Gerard delivered it in the small amount of time the characters were allowed to express it. Though they clearly love each other, circumstances prevent Bronte and George from "going all the way" though I certainly hoped they reunited shortly afterward. Both characters had changed because of the other and their initial motives for entering into their "fake" marriage proved to be less important than the other person. For me, the highlight of the movie is during this final scene, when Georges walks away after promising to write her everyday ... and Bronte runs after him and hugs him fiercely - one of the most passionate hugs I've ever seen in a movie! This of course leads up to a wonderful, passionate kiss ... one of my absolute favorite rom-com kisses!
Andie MacDowell did a great job ... but my favorite in this movie is Gerard Depardieu. He gives Georges heart, vulnerability, passion, and love. Bebe Neuwirth is her excellent self as well. I keep this movie beside "When Harry Met Sally" and other favorite movies. Perfect to watch on rainy days or when you're snowed in ... or if you need a great chick-flick!
Summary of Green Card
A man wanting to stay in the us enters into a marriage of convenience but it turns into more than that. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/13/2004 Starring: Andie Mcdowell Bebe Neuwirth Run time: 103 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Peter WeirWith the help of his lawyer, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie MacDowell), a prim and repressed young lady from a privileged life in Connecticut. Bronte, who has agreed to the scheme for her own self-serving reasons, is exasperated when the Immigration & Naturalization Service investigates their case, and she and Georges, whom she detests, must spend time together studying each other's lives to avoid disaster. The fallout, and how it ends, is infinitely more delightful than your run-of-the-mill Hollywood romantic comedy, and the very ending itself stops deliciously short of where Hollywood would feel compelled to drag the story. Fine performances are given by MacDowell, Depardieu--who is fiercely charming pounding the keyboard of a Steinway at an upper class Manhattan dinner party--and Bebe Neuwirth, who is perfect as an upper-class child turned artist who revels in her irresponsibility. --James McGrath
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