Trailer
Plot summary
Brontë Parrish, a horticulturist who campaigns on environmental issues, finds the apartment she wants is rented only to married couples. Georges Fauré, a French waiter in New York, has been offered a job but needs permanent residence, and the simplest route to a green card is marriage to an American. The two strike a bargain: a wedding on paper that solves both their problems. To convince the immigration officers the match is real, they must learn each other's past and habits, and they move in together. She is wrapped up in her plants and her causes; he eats red meat, smokes, and has a temper.
Cast
- Conrad McLarenas Brontë's Parent (Father)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Green Card (1990)
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- Although the film was set in America and did not feature Australian actors, the fact that it was written, directed, filmed, designed and edited by an Australian enabled it to receive $3.8 million in funding from the Australian government's FFC.
- Peter Weir wrote the script, an original, specifically as a vehicle for Gérard Depardieu, to introduce the French star to a wide English-speaking audience.
- In Australia, Green Card became the highest-grossing local film of its time, earning A$10,585,060 (about US$8 million) at the box office.
- Green Card shares its marriage-of-convenience premise with an earlier Canadian TV film, Michel Brault's 1989 The Paper Wedding, which had screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.
- Several songs heard in the film, including three Enya tracks ("River," "Watermark" and "Storms in Africa"), Soul II Soul's "Holdin' On" and The Beach Boys' "Surfin' Safari," were left off the official soundtrack album.
