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Name: Driving Miss Daisy
Released: 1989-12-13
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle

Driving Miss Daisy

PG
1h 39m
1989

85%

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Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy star in the screen adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Over 25 years, as the American South changes profoundly, the friendship between a highly independent, eccentric Jewish matron and the stalwart and very patient black widower her son hires as chauffeur endures and deepens, testing the limits of their differences . . . and similarities.

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Producer:

Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, David Brown

Cast:

Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joann Havrilla, William J. Hall Jr., Alvin Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Carolyn Gold, Crystal R. Fox, Bob Hannah

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: While it's fueled in part by outdated stereotypes, Driving Miss Daisy takes audiences on a heartwarming journey with a pair of outstanding actors.

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

Driving Miss Daisy retains its coziness and its slightness, but it has been filmed eloquently.

It's hard not to grimace at some of the racial politics in Driving Miss Daisy. Naïve and self-satisfied, the film contrives the emotions rather than earns them.

June 27, 2023

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El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

It has been a long time since a film arrived, at once, very modest and rich. [Full review in Spanish]

November 16, 2022

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New York Magazine/Vulture

David Denby

Mild but pleasing... The movie, passing in time from the fifties through the civil-rights period, lovingly measures the precise shadings of irritation, affection, and dependence that flow back and forth between two characters.

Is this supposed to represent an achievement of dignity and freedom?... What I saw was an improbable saintlike character persecuted by a cranky, bigoted tyrant who became slightly less cranky but never less condescending with time.

July 26, 2022

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