Driving Miss Daisy (Blu-ray)
The funny, touching and totally irresistible story of a working relationship that became a 25-year friendship.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 16, 2021
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Tandy & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone & Esther Rolle | |
Directed by | Bruce Beresford | |
Edited by | Mark Warner | |
Screenwriting by | Alfred Uhry | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Richard D. Zanuck & Lili Fini Zanuck | |
Director of Photography: | Peter James | |
Executive Production by | David Brown |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alfred Uhry
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Makeup: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Freeman is note-perfect with Hoke's dignified warmth, and Tandy, whose every moment on screen is an acting lesson, turns in what by far is the most hauntingly elegant performance of the year.
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Boston Globe
A warm and tender, human story. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the year's best films, a rarity in that a play has been successfully transferred to film without having the dialogue seem "written."
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
Driving Miss Daisy spans a quarter-century in the intricate relationship of a Southern dowager and her chauffeur, and it is a movie that invites you to appreciate the passage of time in more than one way.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
...Small and pure and healthily skeptical....[Tandy] has never had a role of a richness and humor to match Miss Daisy, and she brings to it her mastery...
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
All the good in this film ends up being shipwrecked by a cloying, but predictable, ending. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Sensacine
Rating: 5/5 --
It's a story about interior lives and the gradual changes that love and respect can bring about. That's rare in today's movies, and it's something to be treasured.
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Tulsa World
Product Description:
Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a menace behind the wheel, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), ignores her protests and hires Hoke, a black chauffeur. When the feisty matron decides to resist necessity and walk to the store, the equally stubborn chauffeur follows her in her car. As he says to Boolie, "I used to rassle hogs down to the ground...ain't nary a hog got away from me yet." But Hoke's methods are gentleness and patience, and as the years elapse in his ongoing tug-of-war with the temperamental Daisy, she begins to tacitly acknowledge his wisdom. When she expresses annoyance over the demands of the nascent civil rights movement, Hoke points out to the Jewish woman the similarity between the attack on her synagogue and Klan attacks on black churches. But it is only after many years together that they can finally admit to the depth of the friendship they have shared. The two stars give unforgettable performances, and Beresford's direction is a model of restraint.
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- Sales Rank: 24,646
- UPC: 883929741533
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