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‘Green and Gold’ Review: Aggressively Uplifting Sentimental Drama About a Farmer Desperate to Save His Land
With ‘Green and Gold,’ the pacing is slow, the protagonist is off-putting and the entire enterprise tends to more impatience than sympathy.
Lean and leathery, with a stoic grimace as his facial expression of choice, Hank is a salt-of-the-earth guy who loves Margaret (Annabel Armour), his supportive and infinitely patient wife of several years, and Jenny (Madison Lawlor), his musically inclined granddaughter, only slightly less than his beloved Green Bay Packers. Well, Lindwall, working from an uninspired script he co-wrote with Steven Shafer, Michael Graf and Missy Mareau Garcia, relies on what could be called the Law of Chekhov’s Ladder, introducing and emphasizing a certain item so heavy-handedly that you instinctively grasp that, sooner or later, someone is bound to have a nasty accident while using it. Some modest suspense is generated by the last-chance wager Hank makes with the banker — if the Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl, foreclosure on the farm will be delayed interest-free for a year — and neatly avoids insulting our intelligence by taking the easy way out (in this area, at least).
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