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Driving Miss Daisy
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{{Short description|1989 drama film by Bruce Beresford}}{{About||the play|Driving Miss Daisy (play)|the 2014 film of a theater production|Driving Miss Daisy (2014 film)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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- Morgan Freeman
- Jessica Tandy
- Dan Aykroyd
- Patti LuPone
- Esther Rolle{edih}| music = Hans Zimmer
- Warner Bros.WEB, Fabrikant, Geraldine, How Major Studios Missed a Hit, The New York Times, March 6, 1990,weblink November 7, 2011, December 1, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101201035423weblink">weblink live, (North America & United Kingdom)
- Allied FilmmakersWEB, Driving Miss Daisy (1989), AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 2 December 2022,weblink
- Majestic Films International (International)
Plot
In 1948, Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, a 72-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired schoolteacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for a black housekeeper, Idella. When Miss Daisy drives her 1946 Chrysler Windsor into her neighbor's yard, her 40-year-old son, Boolie, buys her a Hudson Commodore and hires 60-year-old Hoke Colburn, a black chauffeur. Boolie tells Hoke that Miss Daisy may not appreciate his efforts, but she cannot fire him, because Boolie is his employer. At first, Miss Daisy refuses to let anyone drive her, but Hoke's patience pays off, and she reluctantly accepts the first two trips. Then she tries to get Boolie to fire Hoke after discovering a can of salmon missing from her pantry. Unprompted and before she is able to confront him, Hoke admits to eating the salmon and offers her a replacement can.As Miss Daisy and Hoke spend time together, she comes to appreciate his many skills. She teaches him to read for the first time using her teaching skills and resources. After Idella dies in the spring of 1963, rather than hire a new housekeeper, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and have Hoke do the cooking and the driving. Meanwhile, Hoke buys the cars in which he drives Miss Daisy, after they are traded in for newer models, and he negotiates a higher salary with Boolie.The film explores racism against African Americans and antisemitism in the South. After her synagogue is bombed, Miss Daisy realizes that she is also a victim of prejudice. American society is undergoing radical changes, and Miss Daisy attends a dinner at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech.Boolie declines when she invites him to the dinner, suggesting that Miss Daisy invite Hoke. She waits until the last moment, asking Hoke to be her guest during the car ride to the event. She attends the dinner alone while Hoke, who is insulted by the manner of the invitation, listens to the speech on the car radio, outside.One morning in 1971, Hoke arrives at the house to find Miss Daisy agitated and showing signs of dementia: She believes that she is a young teacher again. Hoke calms her down. In that conversation, she calls Hoke her "best friend." Boolie arranges for Miss Daisy to enter a retirement home. In 1973, Hoke, now 85 and rapidly losing his eyesight, retires. Boolie, now 65, drives Hoke to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, now 97.BOOK, Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred, Uhry, January 1, 1998, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 0822203359, The two catch up, and Hoke gently feeds her Thanksgiving pie. The final scene is an image of the black Cadillac driving on a road.Cast
{{cast list|- Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn
- Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan
- Dan Aykroyd as Boolie Werthan
- Patti LuPone as Florine Werthan
- Esther Rolle as Idella
- Joann Havrilla as Miss McClatchey
- William Hall Jr. as Oscar
- Muriel Moore as Miriam
- Sylvia Kaler as Beulah
- Crystal R. Fox as Katey Bell
Reception
Box office
Driving Miss Daisy was given a limited release on December 15, 1989, earning $73,745 in three theaters. The film was given a wide release on January 26, 1990, earning $5,705,721 over its opening weekend in 895 theaters, becoming the number one film in the United States. It remained at number 1 the following week but was knocked off the top spot in its third weekend of wide release by Hard to Kill. It returned to number one the next weekend and remained there for a fourth week. The film ultimately grossed $106,593,296 in North America, and $39,200,000 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $145,793,296. The film was released in the United Kingdom on February 23, 1990.WEB,weblink Weekend box office 23 February 1990 - 25 February 1990, www.25thframe.co.uk, July 5, 2020, July 6, 2020,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20200706020751weblink">weblink live,Critical reaction
Driving Miss Daisy was well received by critics, with particular praise for the screenplay and performances by Freeman, Tandy and Aykroyd. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 85% rating based on reviews from 104 critics, with an average score of 7.70/10. The website's critical consensus states: "While it's fueled in part by outdated stereotypes, Driving Miss Daisy takes audiences on a heartwarming journey with a pair of outstanding actors."WEB,weblink, Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Rotten Tomatoes, July 2, 2023, November 17, 2020, https:web.archive.org/web/20201117204050weblink live, On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 81 based on 17 reviews.WEB,weblink Driving Miss Daisy Reviews, Metacritic, March 1, 2018, September 20, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170920153011weblink">weblink live, CinemaScore similarly reported that audiences gave the film a rare "A+" grade.JOURNAL,weblink 18 of the Most Loved or Hated Movies: Films That Got A+ or F CinemaScores (Photos), June 16, 2015, TheWrap, June 15, 2017, July 1, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170701020624weblink">weblink live, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune declared Driving Miss Daisy one of the best films of 1989.WEB, Siskel, Gene, Gene Siskel, 'Roger & Me' Makes Point About The Common Man, Chicago Tribune, January 12, 1990,weblink April 8, 2016, April 7, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160407173138weblink">weblink live, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a film of great love and patience" and wrote, "It is an immensely subtle film, in which hardly any of the most important information is carried in the dialogue and in which body language, tone of voice or the look in an eye can be the most important thing in a scene. 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."WEB, Ebert, Roger, Roger Ebert, Driving Miss Daisy, Chicago Sun-Times, January 12, 1990,weblink April 8, 2016, April 8, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160408053845weblink">weblink live, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film a positive review, calling Tandy's performance "glorious" and opining, "This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932."MAGAZINE, Travers, Peter, Peter Travers,weblink Driving Miss Daisy, Rolling Stone, April 29, 2014, May 13, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140513064447weblink">weblink live, The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by Vincent Canby of The New York Times, who observed, "The two actors manage to be highly theatrical without breaking out of the realistic frame of the film."NEWS, Canby, Vincent, Vincent Canby, Review/Film; 'Miss Daisy,' Chamber Piece From the Stage, The New York Times, December 13, 1989,weblink April 8, 2016, March 5, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160305052739weblink">weblink live, On the other hand, the film has been criticized for its handling of the issue of racism. Candice Russell of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel described Freeman's character as having a "toadying manner" which was "painful to see", and said that the film was ultimately "one scene after another of a pompous old lady issuing orders and a servant trying to comply by saying 'yassum.'"Russell, Candice (January 12, 1990). "'Daisy' Mostly One-Note Film" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921052210weblink |date=September 21, 2020 }}, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale. The film's nomination for Best Picture at the Academy Awards over Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was controversial. Lee later reflected on the controversial decision by saying that Driving Miss Daisy was "not being taught in film schools all across the world like Do the Right Thing is."Stern, Marlow (January 15, 2015). "Spike Lee Blasts âSelmaâ Oscar Snubs: âYou Know What? F*ck âEmâ" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730014140weblink |date=July 30, 2020 }}, The Daily Beast.Collins, K. Austin (January 22, 2019). "When the Oscars Chose Driving Miss Daisy Over Do the Right Thing" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809053250weblink |date=August 9, 2020 }}. Vanity Fair.Awards and nominations
Driving Miss Daisy received 9 Academy Award nominations and also achieved the following distinctions in Oscar history:- It is the only film based on an off-Broadway production ever to win Best Picture.PRESS RELEASE,weblink Academy's Diamond Anniversary Screening Series to Feature "Driving Miss Daisy", January 31, 2008, September 2, 2003, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080220131158weblink">weblink February 20, 2008,
- Jessica Tandy (at age 80), became the oldest winner in history to win Best Actress.
- It was the first Best Picture winner since Grand Hotel in 1932 to not also receive a Best Director nomination (this has occurred three times since, Argo in 2012, Green Book in 2018, and CODA in 2021; Wings the first to win Best Picture in 1927 did not have a nomination for director William A. Wellman). In his opening monologue at the 62nd awards ceremony, host Billy Crystal made fun of this irony by calling it "the film that apparently directed itself".WEB,weblink Academy Awards Best Director, October 23, 2014, filmsite.org, September 1, 2009,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090901210327weblink">weblink live,
- As of 2023, it is the latest Best Picture winner that was rated PG.WEB,weblink Academy Awards: Best Picture Milestones; 1980s, Film Site.org, AMC Network Entertainment LLC, New York, NY, August 23, 2020, September 19, 2020,weblink live, All the winners since have been rated PG-13 or R.
- AFI 100 Years 100 Cheers â No.77
Oscar "test of time" recount
In 2015, The Hollywood Reporter polled hundreds of Academy members, asking them to re-vote on past close run decisions. Academy members indicated that, given a second chance, they would award the 1990 Oscar for Best Picture to My Left Foot instead.NEWS,weblink Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash', The Hollywood Reporter, en, January 3, 2020, January 22, 2019,weblink live,Soundtrack
The film's score was composed by Hans Zimmer, who won a BMI Film Music Award and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television for his work. The score was performed entirely by Zimmer, done electronically using samplers and synthesizers, and did not feature a single live instrument. There is a scene, however, in which the "Song to the Moon" from the opera Rusalka by AntonÃn DvoÅák is heard on a radio as sung by slovak sopranist Gabriela BeÅaÄková.Similarities have been noted between the main theme and the "plantation" folk song "Shortnin' Bread".MAGAZINE, Bettencourt, Scott, THE YEAR IN FILM MUSIC: 1989,weblink Film Score Monthly, June 29, 2014, August 5, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170805144201weblink">weblink live, The soundtrack was issued on Varèse Sarabande.Home media
The film was also successful on home video.NEWS, Hunt, Dennis, VIDEO RENTALS: 'Born' Can't Pass High-Revving 'Daisy', Los Angeles Times, September 27, 1990,weblink June 10, 2012, March 28, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130328081614weblink">weblink live, It was released on DVD in the United States on April 30, 1997, and the special edition was released on February 4, 2003. The movie was first released on Blu-ray disc in Germany, and was finally released on Blu-ray in the United States in a special edition digibook in January 2013 by Warner Bros. In the UK, Warner Home Video released Driving Miss Daisy on VHS in 1989. Driving Miss Daisy was then released on DVD in 2005 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and then in 2008 by Pathé through 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.References
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- {{Amg movie|14828}}
- {{AFI film|57977}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|driving_miss_daisy/reviews}}
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