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1991
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1 h 47 m

1991
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1 h 47 m

Summary Green Card lights up the screen with irresistible charm and humor! When two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, they encounter far greater differences than most married couples could ever imagine! And worst yet, this mismatched twosome just might be falling love. (Beuna Vista Pictures)

Directed By: Peter Weir

Written By: Peter Weir

1991
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1 h 47 m

1991
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1 h 47 m

Green Card

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

58

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 43 User Ratings

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Summary Green Card lights up the screen with irresistible charm and humor! When two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, they encounter far greater differences than most married couples could ever imagine! And worst yet, this mismatched twosome just might be falling love. (Beuna Vista Pictures)

Directed By: Peter Weir

Written By: Peter Weir

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

59% Positive
10 Reviews

29% Mixed
5 Reviews

12% Negative
2 Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

59% Positive
10 Reviews

29% Mixed
5 Reviews

12% Negative
2 Reviews

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Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle

Green Card demonstrates that explicit nudity is not necessarily an essential ingredient in creating an erotic atmosphere, but that it does take a director's sensitive understanding of the various ways in which emotion creates desire. When that understanding is combined with a sense of the human comedy, it's cause for celebration. [11 Jan 1991, p.E1]

Better than Ghost but not as good as When Harry Met Sally, here's a dating movie where the other woman really should have got her man.

Wall Street Journal

Green Card is quite pleasant to watch mainly because Mr. Weir hasn't disturbed its simple virtues with undue portent. Sometimes a plate of spaghetti with a simple tomato sauce is just the thing, and this is the movie equivalent of that. [10 Jan 1991, p A12]

By Julie Salamon FULL REVIEW

TV Guide Magazine

Peter Weir's talent, so evident in his Australian work, remained dormant here, but Depardieu's lively performance is a redeeming factor.

The New York Times

That understated style at times makes Green Card seem too stiff and vacuous, as if Mr. Weir were inspired by the surface of a Jane Austen work and left out the wicked social observations. But the film is magnificently redeemed by Mr. Depardieu.

Despite its lush photography, Green Card has the texture of peanut butter. It's more romantic than comedic, but there isn't an abundance of either. [11 Jan 1991]

By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW

In his first big Hollywood film, French superstar Gerard Depardieu cheerfully goes slumming with sex, lies, and videotape's Andie MacDowell. Peter Weir's comedy offers a little charm, less story and virtually no movie.

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 43 User Ratings

63% Positive
27 Ratings

19% Mixed
8 Ratings

19% Negative
8 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 43 User Ratings

63% Positive
27 Ratings

19% Mixed
8 Ratings

19% Negative
8 Ratings

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Details

Production Company Touchstone Pictures, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), DD Productions, Greencard Productions, Rio, Sédif Productions, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)

Release Date Jan 11, 1991

Duration 1 h 47 m

Rating PG-13

Genres

Tagline An irresistibly charming comedy!

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Awards

Golden Globes, USA

• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

London Critics Circle Film Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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