Without a Doubt, this Deserved the Best Picture Oscar Award

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2019)

This is based upon true events
In 1962 in New York, due to the Copa Cabana closing for renovations, club Bouncer, Tony Lip (Mortensen) needs a job and takes one driving Dr. Donald Shirley (Mahershala Ali) a snobbish person, but also a genius pianist to concerts in the deep south.
Tony is given the Green Book which is called The Negro Motorist Green Book, which tells Blacks traveling in the south the safe places to eat and rest.
This is a movie that we will see attitudes and prejudices change and it won't be easy for both Tony and Dr. Shirley. We will see Dr. Shirley try to cultivate Tony as best he can and that is an uphill battle, but Tony rolls with the punches. It's not at all quite obvious, but changes are happening within Dr. Shirley, too.
It is definitely the script banter that wins in here. It is honest and often very funny. At one point Tony tells Dr Shirley that he, Tony, is more black than he is because he (Dr. Shirley) knows nothing of the current black music, has never eaten fried chicken and really doesn't know how the blacks live and he sits on his throne looking down on everyone. And to be sure, Dr. Shirley has a good rebuttal for all this.
Notable: Linda Cardellini as Dolores, Tony's wife.
We also see troubles along the way and most times Tony handles all. One time Dr. Shirley gets them out of trouble and he admits to calling someone in Washington DC and that person called Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General of the United States to help and he did.
The banter between Tony and Dr. Shirley is pure gold and this keeps us engaged and hoping for the best.
Near the end I kept hoping that the family dinner at Tony's would encounter one more knock on their door. You'll see what I mean.
This movie is definitely a MUST SEE. You won't be disappointed.
Stay tuned before the credits run for pictures of the real Tony and Dr. Shirley and statements of how Tony and Dr. Shirley ended up. (10/10)
Violence: No.
Sex: No.
Nudity: No.
Humor: Loads of it.
Language: Only one F-bomb.
Rating: A