Green Card Movie Review 1990

Some marry for love, some for money, others for an apartment in the Big Apple. Refined, single MacDowell covets a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan, but the lease stipulates that the apartment be let to a married couple. Enter brusque and burly Depardieu, who covets the elusive green card. The counterpoint between MacDowell, as a stuffy horticulturist, and Depardieu, as a French composer works well, and the two adroitly play a couple whose relationship covers the romantic continuum. Director Weir wrote the screenplay with Depardieu in mind. Depardieu's English-language debut.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS
Running time 108 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Comedy, Scams, Stings & Cons, Marriages of Convenience, Immigration, New York, New York

Screenplay

Peter Weir

Cast

Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky, Jessie Keosian, Ann Wedgeworth, Ethan Phillips, Mary Louise Wilson, Lois Smith, Simon Jones

Director

Peter Weir

Music

Hans Zimmer

Producer

Touchstone Pictures

Awards

Golden Globes 1991: Actor--Mus./Comedy (Depardieu), Film--Mus./Comedy.