Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States. Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for...
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Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States. Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Brontë Mitchell (MacDowell), a horticulturalist and an environmentalist takes part in a sham marriage with Georges Fauré (Depardieu), an illegal alien from France, to allow him to obtain a Green Card. Brontë in turn uses her fake marriage credentials to rent the apartment of her dreams. After moving in, to explain her spouses absence she tells the doorman and neighbors he is conducting musical research in Africa.
Contacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrange an interview to...
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