‘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.
‘Driving Miss Daisy’: Seeing Prejudice Through the Prism of Aging
(Jessica Tandy) and (Morgan Freeman), in "Driving Miss Daisy." Warner Bros
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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.”

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