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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Bruce Beresford
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Actors:
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Jessica Tandy,
Patti LuPone,
Esther Rolle,
Bob Hannah,
Joann Havrilla,
William Hall Jr.,
Alvin M. Sugarman,
Clarice F. Geigerman,
Muriel Moore,
Sylvia Kaler,
Carolyn Gold,
Crystal R. Fox,
Morgan Freeman,
Dan Aykroyd,
Ray McKinnon
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)86
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Plot Summary:
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An having one foot in the grave Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allocate him to charter out a driver, which in the 1950s meant a hellish man. She resists any metamorphose in her enthusiasm but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to make allowance him to refer to her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her once more with his native saintly graces. The movie is anon entranced from a stage tease and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the double's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences... .Read more Less
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Congealing sentiment
Afraid I found it patronising. Rather hoped Dan Ackroyd would turn out to be a villain. A time when black servants knew their place but had a sense of Inner Dignity. Hardly challenging to stereotypes. Watch Malcolm X instead.
Driving Miss Daisy
Tandy is the old dear, resistant to change. No longer able to drive herself, she is annoyed when her son hires Freeman to be her chauffeur. Based on a stage play, the 20-year story of the slowly developing relationship between Miss Daisy and her driver, and the subtle changes in racial politics that go with it, is quietly moving - in no small part due to fine performances from Tandy and Freeman. Ultimately this is an intelligent feel-good movie that had Oscar material stamped all over the screenplay, but lacks the bite or insight that could have turned it into something truly special.
Driving Miss Daisy
This two-dimensional, unassuming moving picture went up against the prominent guns of Hollywood and emerged with a superlative picture Oscar and a hefty profit. Based on the 1987 ditty-undertaking play by Alfred Uhry, it charts the deepening relationship between an elderly widow and her frowning chauffeur in Atlanta. Miss Daisy, played aside the Oscar-winning Jessica Tandy, is an ignoring prehistoric school-ma'm with a will of iron, until she crashes her new motor vehicle and cannot get surety on another. So her son (Dan Aykroyd) arranges a permanent chauffeur, the widower Hoke, played by Morgan Freeman. Although Miss Daisy is Jewish and regards herself as without racial predisposition, Hoke have to gradually win acceptance and put up with her tirades from the sneakily...
Driving Miss Daisy
Beresford and writer Alfred Uhry have produced a debonair accommodation of the latter's play, but it's the sharp...
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