‘Driving Miss Daisy’: Seeing Prejudice Through the Prism of Aging

Aging in the Deep South reflects the vulnerability of the marginalized, whether Jew or black.

(Jessica Tandy) and (Morgan Freeman), in "Driving Miss Daisy." Warner Bros

PG | 1 h 39 min | Drama, Comedy | 1989

A widowed, retired schoolteacher in her 70s who lives by herself in 1940s Atlanta, Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), accidentally rams her car into a neighbor’s yard. So her doting son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), gets her another car, and a chauffeur in his 60s, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), in Bruce Beresford’s “Driving Miss Daisy.”