Green Book [DVD] [Standard]

Green Book (Blu-ray New Box Art) [Blu-r

In 1962, Bronx club bouncer Frank Anthony "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) was between gigs when he hired on to chauffeur the celebrated African-American classical/jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) on his concert tour of the Deep South. The prevailing Jim Crow attitudes they were steeped in on the journey, and the improbable bond that resulted, are memorably and poignantly drawn in Peter Farrelly's true-life opus. Linda Cardellini, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton co-star. 130 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.

In David Cronenberg's subtly provocative film, one of his most celebrated, all is not as it initially seems. In his first of many collaborations with the director, Viggo Mortensen delivers a highly nuanced performance as Tom Stall, a small-town husband and father who is hailed as a hero when he kills the would-be perpetrators of a violent robbery. But how did this ordinary family man dispatch them with such skill? Working with an exceptional cast that also includes Maria Bello, Ed Harris, and William Hurt, Cronenberg slyly deconstructs the mythos of the American action hero, posing elemental questions about identity, human nature, and the violence that we both abhor and can't look away from.