About: Turning Green

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Turning Green is a 2005 black comedy film written and directed by Michael Aimette and John G. Hofmann. The script was a runner up in the original Project Greenlight on HBO. Donal Gallery stars as James Powers, a displaced American teenager living in Ireland in 1979 who discovers girlie magazines on a random trip to London. He illegally imports the magazines, which changes both his fortunes and his perspective on life in Ireland. The tagline for the film is "Turning Green. The tale of a boy, a country and a box of porn."

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  • Turning Green is a 2005 black comedy film written and directed by Michael Aimette and John G. Hofmann. The script was a runner up in the original Project Greenlight on HBO. Donal Gallery stars as James Powers, a displaced American teenager living in Ireland in 1979 who discovers girlie magazines on a random trip to London. He illegally imports the magazines, which changes both his fortunes and his perspective on life in Ireland. The tagline for the film is "Turning Green. The tale of a boy, a country and a box of porn." As one of the first movies to receive a domestic theatrical release by , it screened in Los Angeles (November 6, 2009), New York City (November 13, 2009) and Chicago (November 20, 2009). The title Turning Green refers to many themes of the film, both physical (James becoming sick after performing one of his drinking bar tricks, converting Irish pounds to American dollars) and metaphorical (James unwittingly becoming more Irish.) Turning Green received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Variety, NPR and The Star-Ledger among others. (en)
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  • Ireland (en)
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  • John G. Hofmann (en)
  • Michael Aimette (en)
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  • New Films International (en)
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  • Donal Gallery (en)
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  • John G. Hofmann (en)
  • Michael Aimette (en)
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  • Turning Green is a 2005 black comedy film written and directed by Michael Aimette and John G. Hofmann. The script was a runner up in the original Project Greenlight on HBO. Donal Gallery stars as James Powers, a displaced American teenager living in Ireland in 1979 who discovers girlie magazines on a random trip to London. He illegally imports the magazines, which changes both his fortunes and his perspective on life in Ireland. The tagline for the film is "Turning Green. The tale of a boy, a country and a box of porn." (en)
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  • Turning Green (en)
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