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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
569 Views


- Both nice guy.

- Nice?

Yes, that's what you said. Yes.

And Stephen wanted to "marriage" you,

but, uh, you think that marriage

is boring.

- Ah! Except for ours.

- Oh, yeah.

Then you met, uh, Phil.

Phil.

- Him you really love, huh?

- But you can't tell them that.

- And I left Phil.

- And married me, because...

You're different and funny.

And don't forget a...

a good handyman.

Right.

You've had lots of women,

but you haven't really loved anyone...

since Helene, except for me.

- And you fell in love with me because...

- Ah!

What's a good reason?

I just can't think.

It can't be that hard

to think of a reason.

Uh, let me see. Ahh!

There must be a reason.

Oh, yes! Yes.

Because I begin

to hear music again.

- It's like when I was a little girl.

- Yeah?

The same thing.

- The pot.

- Sure.

No, I gave you a five, right?

Yeah, okay.

- What is it?

- Nothing.

- What? What?

- Don't wait up for me.

- Phil? Phil!

- Hey-hey!

Hey! Oh, ho!

You look beautiful.

- Let's go around to your place.

- Wait.

- Or we can go around to Angelo's.

- No.

- Oh, God. I'm hungry. Let's go.

- No, no, no, no, no. Let's go this way.

No, no. It's all arranged. Come on.

I made a reservation. Come here.

- Let's go have dinner around...

just around the corner here.

- No, no, no, no, no.

- I have it all planned.

Let's go this way.

- Come on.

- No, no, no.

- Oh, come on.

- So tell me everything you

did while I was away.

- Not much.

- Not much? So you missed me?

- Oh, yes.

- Yes?

- Yes.

- I missed you a lot.

You sure you missed me?

- Of course.

- You sure?

- Yes.

You don't look like you did.

No. Looks to me like I missed you more

than you missed me.

That's not true.

- You should have been there.

It was beautiful.

- Three tofus and a brown rice.

I saw us there. Out in the middle

of nowhere, grow our own food.

One night there was

this incredible moon.

- You should've seen it. Wow!

- We had the same moon.

Well, yeah, but you should have seen it

without all the crap in the sky.

It was glorious.

It was a cloudy night.

Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,

this giant shaft of moonlight

breaks through the clouds.

It was all of a sudden like daytime...

with giant shadows being

cast from the trees.

Ohh.

Oh, what a beauty.

- Now go!

- No.

- Phil!

- The guard isn't here.

Ohh. Look, we'll get together

tomorrow, okay? Please.

Just to the door, Bront.

There might be some intruder

lurking about.

- Hey, this is nice!

- Okay.

- You've seen me to the door. Now go.

- No.

No. I can't go until

I've seen the greenhouse.

- Oh, Phil, you've had too much to drink.

- Yeah.

- Come here. Mmm!

- Mmm.

- Oh, you feel so good.

- Oh, Phil, no. Please.

- Mmm.

- Oh.

Oh, Bront. Oh, oh!

- Phil.

- Mmm, mmm.

- Oh.

- Phil, no, no!

You heard what she said!

Oh, merde!

- She said go. Okay?

- Who's this?

- Go or I'll throw you out.

- Georges, how dare you?

- Bront, talk to me. Who is this?

- Get out, vegetarian!

- Who the hell do you think you are?

- Georges, no!

- I'm the husband, that's who.

- What'd you say?

- That's my wife you've been grabbing.

Now get out.

Bront? Bront? Is this true?

Yes, but it's not the way

you think. Oh, God.

- What?

- Oh, God!

- Out.

- Now wait a minute.

- Out, out, out, out.

Hey! You're the waiter

from that restaurant.

- Get out! Out.

- I don't know what's going on,

but I'm gonna find out, pal.

Go on, get out!

Carrot! Cucumber!

- No!

- Now you go.

- The interview! We're going tomorrow.

- Out! Now!

- Are you upset?

- Upset? Upset!

- Out, out!

- No, no. But the interview!

- I don't care.

I don't care what happens.

- Bront, please.

Now go or I'll call the police.

I'll call Immigration.

Jail would be better than this.

At least I'd have a cell to myself!

Oh. Come on.

D-Don't be childish.

- Bront?

- Ohh!

Bront? Open, Bront.

Bront? Bront? Bront?

Bront?

Get up. Go on. Get up.

Up! Out! Out!

Oh, no.

Up! Out!

Back to the subway.

- It's you!

- Uh, good morning, Mrs Bird.

Ever since you people moved in,

there's been nothing but trouble.

I didn't want

to wake you, chrie.

- You forgot your key again.

- Yes. Al-Always forgetting the key.

You should have gone to a hotel, dear!

But the board wouldn't approve of

such a thing! Sleeping in the hallways.

- Excuse me.

- This isn't Africa, you know.

I realize that, Mrs Bird.

It won't happen again.

Mrs Bird!

- Why did you do that last night?

- I just don't like vegetarians.

- Don't be ridiculous!

- The way he was bothering you,

I lost control.

- Is that supposed to be an apology?

- He's not right for you.

Oh, really? He knows more about

people's feelings than you'll ever know.

- Feelings?

You don't have feelings at all.

- You snore, and your manners

are atrocious.

- Ah, if you think

that's important, you're a snob.

- Well, you're a slob,

you're overweight, you're disgusting!

You say you are a rebel,

but you are afraid of your father.

- My father's made something of his life.

- But you live your life like

you got it from a book.

- Well, you're 40,

and you sleep in the park.

- And Phil?

Oh, yes, you make-a nice love with Phil,

like-a vegetables. You need a f***.

That's the language of the gutter, where

you came from and where you'll end up.

I am... I am the gutter, yes.

But you... You are like a plant.

A ca-ca... cactus!

I once said I had no opinion of you,

and now I do.

- I hate you. I really hate you!

- Good, good. Your first feeling. Good.

- Oh, God. The interview!

- Oh, my God!

- Oh, oh! Oh!

- Do you have... Do you have a...

Yeah. I'll do it. I'll do it.

I'll do it.

- Move it, you stupid moron!

- I'm stuck. I'm stuck.

- Come on. We'll take the subway.

- Well, you can take the subway, lady,

but you ain't goin' nowhere.

- The subway? Where?

- The water main broke.

- The park. The park. Come on!

The whole city's falling apart!

Come on. We'll get a cab

on the other side.

But the park is too far, Bront.

Bront, it's too far!

Come on. Up there.

- This way.

- You're sure? You're sure, huh?

- Yes.

- Because we can't get lost.

I'm sure. Of course I'm sure.

- To the right. Right.

- Where?

Come on. Come on.

Run for it. Take care.

Oh.

Oh. We're nearly there.

- This way?

- We're not far. Oh.

Come on!

- Children!

- Taxi?

- Taxi! Taxi! Taxi!

- Taxi! Taxi!

Number 75.

We're the next.

Father, Sydney.

Face cream, Monticello.

Monticello. Monticello.

Your father's name,

was it Bertrand or Bernard?

- Rene.

- Oh.

Seventy-six? Seventy-six.

You wait in here, Mr Faur.

And Mrs Faur,

if you'll follow me.

No.

Mr Faur, as you know,

we have doubts...

that your marriage is bona fide.

I have here a number

of detailed questions.

Your answers will help us

make a determination.

I want you to be brief

and to the point.

I ask you

to raise your right hand.

Do you hereby swear that the evidence

you're about to give...

is the truth, the whole truth

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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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