Maverick Filmmaker Peter Weir's 'Green Card' is A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficently. Also, the Performances by its Protagonists are charming! 'Green Card' Synopsis: A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.Peter Weir is a SUPEMELY Talented Storyteller, he's made Fantastic Films throughout his thriving career & 'Green Card' is Amongst his Most Accomplished Works to date. As mentioned before, A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficiently! Weir's Oscar-Nominated Original Screenplay is delightful, so is his Direction. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are passable.Performance-Wise: Gérard Depardieu & Andie MacDowell deliver Charming Performances. Both of the talented actors also share a Striking On-Screen Chemistry from Start to End.On the whole, 'Green Card' is a must watch.

I may have tried this film and got bored in a few minutes, but I gave it another chance, from producer, writer and director Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show). Basically Georges Faure (Golden Globe winning Gérard Depardieu, in his English debut) is the Frenchman who wants to keep a job in America by gaining his Green Card, and Brontë Parrish (Golden Globe nominated Andie MacDowell) is the American who wants to stay in her flat with its own greenhouse, which is actually for a married couple. They marry each other in order to get and keep what they want, and they have convince many people they are married for love, including immigration officers. So they move in with each other, even though they don't get on very well, and they are trying just a little too hard to keep their story straight with all the complications being presented. As time goes on though, they may actually be starting to like each other, like a real married couple, but in the end they are discovered, Georges is deported, and as Brontë realises her love for him, she promises to get to France to continue their marriage. Also starring Jumanji's Bebe Neuwirth as Lauren Adler, Gregg Edelman as Phil, Mrs. Doubtfire's Robert Prosky as Brontë's Lawyer, Jessie Keosian as Mrs. Bird, Ethan Phillips as Gorsky, Mary Louise Wilson as Mrs. Sheehan, Lois Smith as Brontë's Mother and Conrad McLaren as Brontë's Father. It is a pretty improbable story with not too much original comedy and a slightly odd romance development, but Depardieu and MacDowell are likable characters. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Weir, it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, and it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical. Worth watching!

A marriage of convenience to New York environmental activist Brontë (Andie MacDowell) gets French waiter Georges (Gérard Depardieu) a green card to work in America. Brontë gets a sort of "green card" too, in the form of permission to rent an apartment with a rooftop greenhouse. In fact, the colour green is in almost every scene: an emerald green lamp, a nicely placed green wine bottle in several shots, Brontë's clothes, and of course, plants, which appear in pretty much every interior shot –the apartment, a friend's house, restaurants. The exception is Brontë's bedroom (where she's always alone), which is desert colours. This is a very interior movie, and I love how Weir focuses on little details –feet coming down the stairs, the peephole in the front door, water dripping from leaves in the greenhouse –to make the closed spaces interesting. The first time we see Georges and Brontë together, they are saying goodbye on the steps of the courthouse after tying the knot. Suspicion from Immigration agents forces the pair to try proving they have a real marriage. They quickly find that they can't stand each other. But the circumstances force them to spend time learning the details of each other's radically different lives, and then repeat them to the Immigration officials in tones of love and admiration, in order to sound like they are mad for each other. Eventually it has an unexpected effect. The point is that acting and speaking like you love someone can actually bring about what it pretends. I think that's true, even though it goes against conventional ideas of being "genuine", which can simply be an excuse for rudeness. This serious theme is mixed with several situations drawn from the comedy of errors handbook. Green Card has one of the funniest scenes of all time, in my opinion, in which Georges must find a way to convince a room full of New York society people that he's an accomplished musical composer. The laughter is generated by the kind of tension between straight-lacedness and mayhem of a Marx Brothers routine. Bebe Neuwirth as Brontë's friend Lauren is wonderful, nothing remotely like her Lilith character in Cheers, and her reaction to Georges in the musical episode makes the scene even more hilarious.

The film was a sensual master piece with a ending that leaves you spell bound and mystified as to the fact when will they meet again and embrace the reality of the love that transformed from a relationship that was never to be. I especially loved the garden it was so magnificent and to even imagine that such beauty could exist in a city of concrete and pavement. Bronte has such passion for this magnificent garden that she is willing to forgo all obstacles in such blindness that she does not even see the beauty with in the beast of her new husband until it is too late to really let him know how much she cares for him. in the end you can feel the pain that both lovers have as they no longer have the ability to be together in the garden of eden as with Adam and eve where Adam and eve were cast out of the garden Bronte was left with the garden all alone.