GREEN AND GOLD
Family, Faith and Football
What You Need To Know
GREEN AND GOLD tells the moving story of a family struggling to hang on to their family farm. A bet with the banker holding their loan that the Green Bay Packers will win the Super Bowl gives them hope for a miracle, but will the team make it to the championship?
Buck and his granddaughter, Jenny, are often at odds. The two work together on their family’s dairy farm, doing things the old fashioned way, as Buck prefers, but Jenny longs for something more. She dreams of a music career, sharing the passion of her late mother.
Farming is a tough business, and the bank announces their plans to foreclose on the farm. The banker, knowing about Buck’s ardent love for the Green Bay Packers, jokingly makes a bet with him. If the Packers win the Super Bowl, they’ll get another year to pay off their loan.
As Buck struggles to figure out how to save the farm, Jenny strikes up a friendship with Billy Reed. Billy is a musician staying in their town to connect with nature and work on his next album. Jenny shares a tape of her songs with him, and Billy is impressed by her talent.
The family anxiously watches the Packers games every Sunday as they do what they can to keep things afloat; Buck starts selling off farm equipment, while Jenny performs gigs in the city, sneaking her earnings into Buck’s office.
Tragedy strikes when, in a freak accident, Buck’s wife and Jenny’s grandmother falls off a ladder and slips into a coma. Jenny and Buck start fighting again, as he finds out about a meeting she has with Billy Reed and his management team. Jenny goes to the meeting and is dismayed to find that Billy had no intention of helping her launch her own musical career. Instead, he has recorded her songs and wants to use them on his next album. Jenny refuses, as her songs are “too precious” to her to give them away.
Things get worse when the Packers lose a game, knocking them out of the running for the Super Bowl and losing the bet for Buck. Jenny takes solace in the memories they have of the farm and sings a song she wrote about their home on the local radio station. Will Buck and his family get the miracle they need?
GREEN AND GOLD is a well-made, inspiring drama. It features a heartwarming story of family and community, with beautiful shots of the rural Midwest and wonderful singing performances from lead actress Madison Lawlor. As Buck, Craig T. Nelson gives an amazing performance. His chemistry with Lawlor is exciting to watch.
GREEN AND GOLD has a strong Christian, moral worldview. Buck, the lead character, is shown to be someone who always lends a hand to those in need, expecting nothing in return. Also, many scenes show the family attending church, and two scenes show Buck praying. GREEN AND GOLD shows that God’s timing is perfect and that all things work together for good. The movie also stresses people’s connection with God’s Creation, and the importance of taking care of the earth and its creatures. However, GREEN AND GOLD has gambling, which is rebuked by the plot, some foul language and brief violence. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong Christian, moral worldview stresses family, nature, hope, and faith, main character is shown doing things for everyone in his community with no expectation of anything in return, his neighbors mirror this attitude toward him and his wife at the end of the movie, man also helps tow the car belonging to the banker foreclosing on his farm out of the snow despite the personal conflicts between them, many scenes show the family attending church, the family’s home is decorated with crosses and images of Jesus and Mary, man prays to God for help, and man says grace before he and his wife eat dinner
Foul Language
Ten obscenities, two profanities
Violence
Man holds a knife to banker but doesn’t hurt him, man uses gun to threaten another man repossessing his cattle, one of the men repossessing the cattle punches man’s farmhand, and woman falls from a ladder offscreen
Sex
No sex, but man’s daughter had his granddaughter out of wedlock,
Nudity
Buck is shown multiple times in his underwear exercising, but the scenes are brief, and nothing inappropriate is shown
Alcohol Use
Woman has a drink after a performance
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Man and his granddaughter fight often, the banker foreclosing on their farm’s vanity license plate reads “A-Hole,” man deceives young singer to steal her songs, gambling but rebuked in the plot.
