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Green Card

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France, Australia, United States · 1990
Rated PG-13 · 1h 48m
Director Peter Weir
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

Urban horticulturist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a Frenchman whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.

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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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Boston Globe by Jay Carr

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]

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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

As effective as MacDowell was in sex, lies, and videotape, she's clearly no match for the talented Depardieu; perhaps she'd seem less out of her depth if the script wasn't so implausible and threadbare.

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Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Don't look for the originality and grit that distinguished Weir's Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, Green Card has all the heft of a potato chip. But Depardieu's charm recognizes no language barriers, and MacDowell, the revelation of sex, lies, and videotape, proves a fine, sexy foil.

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