Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Purely Joyful Movie!

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This is not your typical fast paced, action filled, loud sound track, big budget movie. However, It will have a much more powerful impact.It's a story about a proud Southern Old lady - Miss Daisy Werthan - and a sage black chauffeur - Hoke Colburn -. You go through 25 years of changing social backdrop and an ever evolving story of their relationship. Movie is filled with subtle remarks and gestures, you will miss it if you focus on your popcorn. Director demands your attention so gently that you don't want to break his heart by not paying attention.At the end of the movie, you say to yourself :"I will miss these guys".

Driving Miss Daisy lives foremost in Academy Award history infamy more than anything else, not necessarily because it beat anything particularly superior like the next year's Dances With Wolves, but because even for them it's just not up to their standards. Based on a play, and it should've stayed on the stage despite the freedom film gives to driving, it's really stale and bland. Quite backwards and overly simplistic especially among a field of more progressive films of its time. The quirky 'odd couple' relationship between an old lady and black man provides clichéd conflict and saccharine drama, touching on light racial themes as delicately as possible as to not disturb anyone. It has mildly amusing moments, nothing original in the slightest, just flukes where the charm clicks, though it ruins it with something eye rolling inducing shortly afterwards.It actually wouldn't be quite so bad if the ensemble wasn't so unbearable. I've never found Morgan Freeman this intolerable, from top to bottom he comes off as false and irritating. The only moments he's decent are the somber reflective ones, this tone he later took throughout the better part of his career, but otherwise it falls flat. Jessica Tandy is no help to him either being merely okay and Dan Akroyd always looks and feels out of place, one take away from anything natural. It has a clunky contrived rhythm about it that doesn't make anything believable. It's just a sentimental lifetime movie with no real justification of why we have to spend it with these insufferable characters. There's a reason Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated for Director or done anything worthwhile since, he has no vision, if only they realized it for the Picture lineup too. I'm just glad to have gotten it out of the way.5/10

It's nice to see movies like this. The story starts from a very ordinary concept of employee and employer relationship but then it is developed into a greater, much more touching story by adding in the time setting. This inserts the details of diversity issues, which are still a problem in many communities nowadays. At first I thought that the racial issue content will be very dominant in duration. But the story dismisses that without omitting the value of the issue by reducing the duration yet showing strong scenes of the issue. One thing that amazes me is Morgan Freeman's acting skills. He can really get the old character acting well. Seeing his more recent works, having him being far older thirsty years, amazes me that his acting and stamina for character is just as great, if not greater than, as he was in this movie. Jessica Tandy also did a great job in doing the balancing side, providing a great portrayal of strongly characterized old woman. Dan Aykroyd did good in providing the completing pieces of the story nicely.

Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) is an elderly Atlanta Jewish woman. The movie opens with her backing the car into her neighbor's yard. Her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd) is a wealthy Textile factory owner, and he refuses to allow her to drive. He hires Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) as her driver. She hates having him around at first, but their relationships eventually grows to the closest of friendship.Written by Alfred Uhry from his award winning play, this is a touching evolution of the two's relationship. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman are absolutely wonderful. Tandy would win the Oscar. The beauty in this is that it doesn't hit the audience over the head. She's not some two dimensional racist. Mostly she doesn't want to put on airs, and she doesn't want somebody bothering her at the her house.