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Trust Weighted
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66Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary - Really Great 4.5
A gem, worthy of its Best Picture Oscar. Charming, tart, meaningful, and powered by tour de force acting, Driving Miss Daisy relates the gentle friendship between two elderly survivors of poverty and discrimination. Both a road and a buddy movie, it brings to life a long gone – but not that long ago – South as it was transitioning into the New South of economic growth, and incipient equality.
Acting - Really Great 4.5
Jessica Tandy deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar for her crisp portrayal of Miss Daisy, the tart and somewhat embittered Southern Jewish widow.
Nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, Morgan Freeman had the misfortune to go up against Daniel Day-Lewis’ jaw dropping performance in My Left Foot. Freeman’s strong, genial and kind performance ennobles everyone around him.
OTOH, Dan Ackroyd hardly deserved his Oscar nomination for playing the long suffering son. He does a nicely understated job, making it somewhat out of character for a comic actor, but still not Oscar worthy.
Male Stars - Perfect 5.0
Female Stars - Perfect 5.0
Female Costars - Good 3.0
Male Costars - Good 3.0
Film - Really Great 4.5
Southern and Jewish? There’s a stereotype buster, though one that allows for the exploration of discrimination through an additional lens beyond that of the severe experience of African-Americans.
Direction - Great 4.0
The great Bruce Beresford demonstrates his deft touch. Why wasn't he nominated for an Oscar?Dialogue - Perfect 5.0
Alfred Uhry has only written a few movies and none for almost 20 years. Still he remains the first (only?) playwright to win the Tony, the Oscar, and the Pulitzer Prize. *Driving Miss Daisy* won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as a play, then won the 1990 Screenplay Oscar as a movie.Music - Perfect 5.0
Great, great theme. Oddly, it wasn't nominated for an Oscar.Visuals - Very Good 3.5
Edge - Tame 1.3
Sex Innocent 1.0
Violence Gentle 1.3
Rudeness Polite 1.5
Reality - Glib 1.1
Miss Daisy Werthan had the kind of Reformed Jewish home that served pork chops. No wonder her son’s social-climbing wife held Christmas parties.