Driving Miss Daisy PG
The funny, touching and totally irresistible story of a working relationship that became a 25-year friendship.
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DVD Details
- Special Features include: Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen Jessica Tandy: Theater Legend
- Original 1989 Featurette
- Commentary by director Bruce Beresford
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 4, 2003
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Tandy & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone & Esther Rolle | |
Directed by | Bruce Beresford | |
Edited by | Mark Warner | |
Screenwriting by | Alfred Uhry | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Richard D. Zanuck & Lili Fini Zanuck | |
Director of Photography: | Peter James | |
Executive Production by | David Brown |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alfred Uhry
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Makeup: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
For all the artistry in the background and behind the camera, Driving Miss Daisy is ultimately an acting showcase. And its stars are ultimately responsible for the delight it creates.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Fine acting, subtle direction, good writing, in fact, a film for everyone to appreciate and enjoy.
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At the Movies (Australia)
It romanticizes, rather than challenges the racial power politics it presents.
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Sojourner
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the year's best films, a rarity in that a play has been successfully transferred to film without having the dialogue seem "written."
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Chicago Tribune
Every one of these dramatic maelstroms manages to appear fresh because Freeman and Tandy somehow manage to come up with new approaches, meting out complementary aspects of their characters.
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Hollywood Reporter
...Freeman and Tandy have their own performer's pride, and that transfers to their characters....The disciplined yet intuitive way in which these actors connect is a model of ensemble performance...
Los Angeles Times
Freeman is note-perfect with Hoke's dignified warmth, and Tandy, whose every moment on screen is an acting lesson, turns in what by far is the most hauntingly elegant performance of the year.
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Boston Globe
Description by OLDIES.com:
Alfred Uhry's moving Pulitzer Prize-winning play became 1989's Academy Award-winning Best Picture. Driving Miss Daisy tells of genteel but strong-willed Atlanta matron Daisy (Best Actress Oscar winner Jessica Tandy) and her patient but equally determined chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Hoke Colburn sits in the front seat with his hands on the steering wheel, but the driver's seat is behind him. That's where Miss Daisy sits. She doesn't want a chauffeur and she won't give in. Neither will Hoke. For two people so different, they have a lot in common. And the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.
Product Description:
Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a menace behind the wheel, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), ignores her protests and hires Hoke, a black chauffeur. When the feisty matron decides to resist necessity and walk to the store, the equally stubborn chauffeur follows her in her car. As he says to Boolie, "I used to rassle hogs down to the ground...ain't nary a hog got away from me yet." But Hoke's methods are gentleness and patience, and as the years elapse in his ongoing tug-of-war with the temperamental Daisy, she begins to tacitly acknowledge his wisdom. When she expresses annoyance over the demands of the nascent civil rights movement, Hoke points out to the Jewish woman the similarity between the attack on her synagogue and Klan attacks on black churches. But it is only after many years together that they can finally admit to the depth of the friendship they have shared. The two stars give unforgettable performances, and Beresford's direction is a model of restraint.
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