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Driving Miss Daisy

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Driving Miss Daisy

1989

Bruce Beresford

Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone ...

6.9

38,174

Drama. Comedy Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, "Driving Miss Daisy" covers the 25 year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman) in Atlanta, Georgia. Both employer and employee are outsiders, Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Henry Sheehan The Hollywood Reporter	"The sight of such confidently talented performers taking a pair of colorfully sketched characters over a quarter-century of a contentious relationship is bound to have solid appeal."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"After so many movies in which shallow and violent people deny their humanity and ours, what a lesson to see a film that looks into the heart. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"In this funny and touching film version, tactfully directed by Bruce Beresford, the creaks are minimal."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Driving Miss Daisy' carries most of its cinematic options with great style."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Thomas Empire	"It gets to its hugely emotional destination without ever having to put the foot down; a poignant and provocative road movie. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Uhry's play (...) is a sentimental actors' vehicle so fundamentally theatrical in conception that nothing can really make it into a film (...) The three actors manage to get a lot of mileage out of the material"	NEU
United States	Variety	"A touching exploration of 25 years of change in Southern race relations (...) Bruce Beresford’s sensitive direction complements Alfred Uhry’s skillful adapation"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"It is a duet [Freeman and Tandy] marked with unaffected grace and generosity of spirit (...) [Beresford] seems attuned to the rhythms of the region and the irony of its people"	POS
United Kingdom	Colette Maude Time Out	"Far too cosy to serve as an effective social or political metaphor; better to regard it as a solid ensemble piece."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] retains all the impact of its Pulitzer Prize-winning stage original. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman give exceptional performances"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"The movie never resorts to sentimentality. It has a dry wit as well as genuine warmth (...) It's the human complexity of these characters that makes them so endearing."	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"A rarity in that a play has been successfully transferred to film without having the dialogue seem 'written' (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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