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Holistic Guidance - Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition)
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $8.99
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle
Directed By: Bruce Beresford
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FREEMAN,MORGAN
EAN: 9780790772370
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 079077237X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-02-04
Running Time: 99
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-01-26
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Editorial Reviews:
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Story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: Wonderful DVD
Comment: This is a wonderful movie. Mr. Morgan Freeman is wonderful in nearly every movie I've ever seen him in. He's a great actor. Ms Jessica Tandy is the same. Together Mr. Freeman and Ms Tandy are superb in Driving Miss Daisy. I love the charming southern accents and the lovely backgrounds. The house used in this movie is beautiful. I enjoyed this movie and am wearing it out from watching it so much. I will certainly replace it if I ever need to. It's that great!!! And worth every penny I paid for it. I will treasure it.
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Summary: Not to be missed
Comment: Jessica Tandy - Morgan Freeman . . . this pair of consummate actors under skilled direction turn a pretty good script into one of those movies you won't forget - and which you will return to with gusto from time to time. Tandy received the Oscar (she was then 81 years old), and Freeman was nominated as Best Actor but denied the statuette he deserved, which was surprisingly awarded to Daniel Day Lewis for a now-obscure film "My Left Foot." "Driving" was nominated for eight Oscars, and was winner for Best Film, Actress, Adapted screenplay, and makeup.
There are no chase scenes, supernatural twists or mind-boggling special effects - just first-rate writing, scripting, directing, acting, editing and mixing. The director, Bruce Beresford, is almost invisible as he guides the tale, and many were shocked that he was not nominated for Best Director by the Oscar committee.
"Driving" Ranks with "To Kill a Mockingbird" for salient content and historical import, but this is no courtroom drama - it's the story of a doctor's wealthy widow, Jewish of faith and riddled with racial bigotry, and hhow she gradually and reluctantly evolves. She is an allegory for the South - indeed, for the USA, and Tandy pulls it off with a finesse that leaves the viewer in awe. Morgan Freeman reveals more of his skills in this move than in any other he's since done - and he's done some first-rate work, in my opinion.
Don't bother to rent first - this is a "keeper" worth buying now and keeping awway from the family dog that thinks all flat discs are frisbees.
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Summary: Loved it.
Comment: This was a truly enjoyable movie. Jessica Tandy is a gem (as always) and Morgan Freeman was also delightful in this role. Though he lays it on a bit thick at times with the overacting, it is only a minor distraction from the story. American Jews played a crucial supporting role in the Civil Rights Movement, it is refreshing to see this part of the struggle referenced in a Hollywood production.
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Summary: Tandy and Freeman Make Movie Magic!
Comment: Age before beauty. That's always been the saying. But what do you do when a movie is so beautiful, it becomes instantly ageless? Such is the situation with this movie. Jessica Tandy once again shows why she was considered such a great actress. And Morgan Freeman shines as her chauffeur. And this movie also starred Esther Rolle, my favorite black actress, who died of complications due to diabetes on Nov. 17, 1998. The story is simple: After accidentally backing her car over a small embankment, Daisy Werthan's son, Boolie, decides it best if a chauffeur was hired to drive her. Fearing a loss of independence, she refuses to allow herself to become friends with Hoke Colburn, an african-american man hired by Boolie. But after a series of events, including the death of her cook, Idella, played by Esther Rolle, and the burning down of their synagogue, she realizes that it's not a loss of independence that she feared most, but the fact that through all that happened, she found herself liking this black man with whom she ends up sharing twenty-some years with. This movie shows how prejudice can be brushed away when we allow ourselves to look beyond the color of the person, and see the character within. And the character of this movie can be summed up with one word: Priceless.
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Summary: "Ms Daisy you is my best friend"!
Comment: All I have to say about this movie is BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Morgan Freeman, is acting skills, I can't describe!!!! The man is that good!!!!!!
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