Driving Miss Daisy

The funny, touching and totally irresistible story of a working relationship that became a 25-year friendship.
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Timing: 1:39 (99 min)

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Budget
$7 500 000
Box office
$145 793 296
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Director
Actors
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joann Havrilla, William Hall Jr., Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore
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Scenario
Producer
Richard D. Zanuck, Alfred Uhry, Robert Doudell, Lili Fini Zanuck, David Brown
Camera operator
Peter James
Composer
Artist
Bruno Rubeo
Audition
Editing
Mark Warner
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Short description

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those types of relationships where shunned.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The play 'Driving Miss Daisy' won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988.
  • Three African Americans are crossing the railway tracks in Atlanta. All three were descendants of the real-life Will Coleman, on whom Hawk, played by Morgan Freeman, was based.

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