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| Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone, Esther Rolle
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 581
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 085392334025
ISBN: 079077237X
UPC: 085392334025
EAN: 9780790772370
ASIN: B000087F7D
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1990
Release Date: February 4, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
 Unlikely friendship. May 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Driving Miss Daisy is a sweet and timeless story of two strangers who strike up a friendship that last for many years. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman are perfection together, they play such opposite characters but their differences bring them closer. Dan Aykroyd is also great in this film, he is such an under-rated actor. I highly recommend this gem, enjoy!
 MAMA, MAMA April 30, 2008
42 out of 43 found this review helpful
Driving Miss Daisy DVD
Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful movie which stars two of my favorite actors, Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. Tandy plays an elderly Southern white woman who is Jewish, the wife of a deceased textile mill owner who has grown too old to drive safely. Freemann plays her chauffer(Lord knows you need a driver, and I needs a job) Freeman makes you a believer in his character immediately, Tandy plays an outstanding elderly Southern white woman, I'm not sure about the Jewish part, I'll have to let Jewish person decide that.
Anyhow this movie is an adaptation of Alfred Uhry's play about the friendship that develops between Tandy's character and Freeman's character over the years that he drove her.
Highly recommended for all English speaking people every where.
I don't know if these two actors won an Academy Award or not, but, if not, they were robbed,
Dan Aykroyd plays Booley, Tandy's son.
Gunner, April, 2008
I checked on Awards and this is what I found:
Awards
In 1989, Driving Miss Daisy was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning in the Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Tandy), Best Makeup, and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. The film is the only movie based on an off-broadway production to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture.[2] Then eighty-year old Jessica Tandy's winning of the Best Actress award was also a history making event, as she was the oldest person to ever win the award.[2]
It also won three Golden Globe awards, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), and Best Actress (Jessica Tandy) in the Comedy/Musical genre. At the 1989 Writers Guild of America Awards, the movie again won an award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Rounding out its US 1989 awards, the film won Best Picture and Best Actor from the National Board of Review.
In the United Kingdom, the movie was nominated for four British Academy Film Awards in 1990, with Jessica Tandy winning in the Best Actress category.
ALL WELL DESERVED !
Morgan Freeman At His Best April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this movie some years ago. It was wonderful watching it again. For those of you who are Morgan Freeman fans, you will not be disappointed with DRIVING MISS DAISY. Freeman is brilliant in the manner that he captures the persona of an older 'Negro' chauffeur of the 40's. Assisted by Jessica Tandy, Freeman's character emerges with eloquence, capturing how a friendship evolves between two individuals in the South - one white and a Jew, one 'colored'- who come to grips with racism. This is a poignant story about a man and a woman who over several decades grow to depend on one another. I highly recommend this movie.
What a wonderful film! April 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well you know a movie must be good if it can make you both laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh, and still carry a good plot. Jessica Tandy was superb, and Morgan Freeman is always a winner. A two-thumbs-up film for audiences of all ages!
Loved It! Sorry it took me 19 years to watch! March 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, you heard right...this movie came out in 1989, when I was graduating high school...I heard about it and wanted to see it many times over the years but the library never had it and I was always too busy for movies. I finally recorded it on HBO (on my wonderful DVD recorder), printed out a nice cover for it, and watched it for the first time in March of 2008 because I was shut in during a snowstorm.
I love watching period movies and anyone caring to get a look at how life was in the south in the 1950's, or how one can have money but be lonely (money doesn't buy everything), should watch this movie. People knock Miss Daisy for being stubborn, etc., but imagine being an educated woman back then and having found yourself retired, widowed, and alone, but with all of your spunk and faculties. Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy both did a wonderful job.
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