Green Card Page #3

Synopsis: George Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and the easiest way is to marry an American. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker who is a keen horticulturist and just found the perfect flat with its own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only. A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with life together, they start to fall in love.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Peter Weir
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
PG-13
Year:
1990
103 min
497 Views


otherwise you wouldn't be here.

Uh, I spoke to my lawyer.

He said not to panic.

It's probably just routine.

- Have you got some coffee?

- Coffee?

Yeah.

Right! Good idea.

We'll just have coffee

like any normal married couple.

How's the composing? Didn't you

get the big job in California?

No. I don't like them, you know?

I prefer to be a waiter

than work for people like that.

But you're not at

the restaurant any more.

No, I quit.

They said you were fired.

Really? Funny.

I hate that captain, you know?

He's really a snob type. Ah.

These people are due here any minute,

and you stroll around my apartment

touching my things!

Do you realize the situation

that you've put me in? Do you?

I'm sorry, Betty.

It's Bront.

Oh.

This is hopeless.

- The coffee?

- The coffee?

- Yes.

- I'm about to go to jail, you're gonna

be deported. But what about the coffee?

Oh, my God, they're here.

- Wait. Wait! I'll get it.

- Yeah?

- Uh, may I speak with Mr Faur, please?

- Yeah, this is Mr Faur.

- This is Immigration.

- Ah, okay. Come on.

What...

- What are you doing?

- Better put them in my closet.

Oh.

Oh, God!

Ring. Ring.

- Oh, we have to talk, for God's sake.

- Talk about what?

Our story. How we met.

They're gonna ask us questions.

No, they just want to see us together,

that's all.

This happened to a guy

at the restaurant.

They see us, they go. Simple.

Can you get it, chrie?

Let me do the talking.

No, I'll do the talking.

You don't speak much English.

I'll just tell them... I'll just tell...

No! Now, relax. We're together.

Okay? Don't panic.

Now go.

Hello.

Oh, isn't this quaint?

Thank you.

Come on up.

Georges?

This is Mrs Sheehan and Mr Gorsky.

- Hi.

- Hello.

- Hi.

- Hi. Please sit down.

- Mr Faur?

- Georges, please.

Yes. Now, you entered the country...

five months ago

according to our records.

Yes, and already I love it. You see?

- Yes, well...

- Land of opportunity.

- Such a great country.

A-A-Already I feel at home.

- Yes.

- Ah.

- So lucky.

Beautiful wife.

- Apartment.

- Yeah.

- Plants.

- Oh.

- So lucky. You see?

- Uh, well, um, your visa... a B-2...

a tourist visa...

allowed you only six weeks.

Now, that in itself is an offence...

but more recent events

have overtaken that.

Your marriage, of course,

gives you automatic residency status.

- Now, this is your place of residence?

- Of course.

- Yes.

- You moved here after the marriage?

- Yes. Mm-hmm.

- Mm-hmm.

We spoke to the chairperson

of the building...

and he said you'd been away,

Mr Faur.

- In Africa.

- Yes.

- Shooting elephants.

- Oh.

- With a camera.

- Ah, a camera.

- Oh!

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Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( WEER; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement (1970–1990), with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the supernatural thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981). The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously (1983). After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits—including Academy Award-nominated films such as the thriller Witness (1985), the drama Dead Poets Society (1989), the romantic comedy Green Card (1990), the social science fiction comedy-drama The Truman Show (1998) and the epic historical drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer. Since 2003, Weir's productivity has sharply declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically successful but financial flop The Way Back (2010). more…

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