There have been a lot of fish-out-of-water buddy comedies at the movies over the years. But never quite like this.

Director Peter Farrelly takes on a true story with his latest film, “Green Book.”

Is it a feel-good movie? Or yet another example of a black man’s story being sacrificed to make a white man a hero?

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