Driving Miss Daisy
by Bruce Beresford
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Actor: Dan Aykroyd, Esther Rolle, Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPoneDirector: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Alfred Uhry
Writer: Alfred Uhry
Producer: David Brown
Producer: Jake Eberts
Producer: Lili Fini Zanuck
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck
Producer: Robert Doudell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-04-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Driving Miss Daisy
DVD Review: Seven Reasons to Watch "Driving Miss Daisy":
Summary: 5 Stars
Here are 7 reasons to watch the 1989 Academy Award winning movie, "Driving Miss Daisy":
1. The superb Academy Award winning performance of Jessica Tandy as a cantankerous wealthy southern Jewish widow.
2. Morgan Freeman's equally superb performance as her good natured but stubborn, intelligent, illiterate chauffeur, Hoke Colburn.
3. Dan Aykroyd's portrayal of Miss Daisy's son. He showed he's capable of more serious acting than "Saturday Night Live" sketches. More importantly, his character shows how an otherwise nice guy caves in to business pressures to be on the wrong side of human rights social change.
4. Esther Rolle's performance as Miss Daisy's maid, Idella. Just as she did in the sit com's Maude and Good Times, she gets in some good one-liners.
5. The portrayal of the warming relationship of Miss Daisy and Hoke against the backdrop of the times. When Miss Daisy sees first-hand the discrimination Hoke suffers as a black man in the south, she increasingly empathizes with him.
6. Historical lessons and experience. Many of us weren't yet born or were too young to remember Jim Crowe law in the South. With the costuming, cars, kitchen design, etc., I really felt like I stepped back into the years portrayed by the movie--1948, 1953, 1966, etc.
7. No on-screen violence. How refreshing to see a high quality movie without having to witness violence. As of this writing, this was the last PG movie to win an Academy Award.
DVD Review: awesome movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched this movie several times and enjoy it more and more each time I watch it. So glad I purchased it.DVD Review: Driving Miss Daisy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a classic film. The acting is right on and the plot teaches much about racial discrimination. I use it every year with my English 11 classes.DVD Review: Driving Miss Daisy
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD came in a timely manner. It was in excellet shape when I received it. I was very pleased.DVD Review: Upconvert Daisy
Summary: 5 Stars
Tossed the VCR tape. Poor is an understatement.
HD TV, HDMI, the DVD version of Daisy is the only way to go provided an HDMI DVD player.
Upconvert HDMI is from 480 to 1080 for current large screen LCD HD TV's.
Same for Plasma.
The result is not HD or Blueray but very good. As good as theatre screen play.
Don't miss the hour DVD play providing the background and difficulties of making this movie.
Amazing that Daisy acting talent was brought to the screen by equally creative management and production.
Description of Driving Miss Daisy
Winner of the Academy Award? for best picture of 1989, this gracefully moving drama, adapted from the hit play by Alfred Uhry, chronicles the 25-year friendship between a stubborn, aging Southern widow (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal chauffeur (Morgan Freeman). At first, the self-sufficient Miss Daisy is reluctant to accept the services of a chauffeur, but Hoke is quiet, wise, and tolerant, and as the years pass the unlikely friends develop a deep mutual respect and admiration. Tandy deservedly won the Oscar for her sassy and sensitive performance, and Freeman earned an Oscar nomination for bringing quiet depth and integrity to his memorable role. Ironically, director Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies) was not nominated, but the film won Oscars for makeup and for Uhry's screenplay, in addition to a supporting actor nomination for Dan Aykroyd as Daisy's supportive son. Delicate, funny, and bittersweet, Driving Miss Daisy was a surprise hit when released, and marked the crowning achievement of Tandy's great career. --Jeff ShannonGeneral DVDs
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