1989 · comedy · drama
Driving Miss Daisy
Directed by Bruce Beresford1h 39m1989
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
Our read: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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“You want gentle decades-spanning friendship drama that rewards patience and care.”
Skip it tonight — You need propulsive plotting; this is a quiet character piece on race and aging.
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