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If not the worst Best Picture winner, then certainly one of the most baffling. I get that its subjects (the effects of aging, the long-term relationship between an employee and their employer) are rarely depicted in Hollywood movies; perhaps that novelty was enough to make it seem special. But it’s ultimately just a character study, and not a particularly rich one. 25 years passes, but the film doesn’t capture the gradual evolution of its setting or its people. In one scene, Dan Aykroyd looks like himself circa 1989 and in the next he’s got a big gray wig on. Forget about Do the Right Thing; this isn’t even on the level of the other four films that were nominated for Best Picture in 1989.
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Nobody would’ve blamed Morgan Freeman if he drove that racist old bat to the graveyard right away
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this is a real argument against my loose “watch best picture winners I’ve never seen” project
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Let it sink in that this movie won Best Picture and Do The Right Thing wasn’t even nominated.
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SScott B 8 月 23, 2026
Really strange choice by the Academy to award this film Best Picture thirty years after it was released.
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DISCLAIMER: My following thoughts are in regards to one aspect in particular. I’m not claiming you must love this movie. You are in your full right to don’t like this. Again, this are my thoughts, just an opinon As I type these words I can’t help but to feel angry. Not angry at this movie, but angry at everyone who for years fooled me to believe one thing that’s not true. To sell me this idea that this is a… no, is the mother of all the white savior movies. From what I’ve got throughout the years, I believe in many ways the main reason for this comes from the fact plenty of people are upset that the Academy chose…
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Is this the safest movie ever made? Driving Miss Daisy doesn’t even attempt to take a risk. It mentions racism but never really touches the topic. The film making is extra bland. The music is mixed super loud probably to keep you from falling asleep. It’s vanilla as hell but it’s pleasant, and surprisingly I didn’t hate watching it.
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there’s no way this should have won best picture over dead poets society 🤦🏼♀️
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Pero la gente cómo le va a dar notas tan bajas tío estáis todos profundamente LOCOS
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Bro how did this schlock beat out my goat dead poets society???? At least this movie had the mercy of being only 100 minutes considering it had basically nothing to say
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مورغن فريمن انت ممثل عظيم
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Ya no se hacen películas así, muy emotiva
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What was that market called Pinkity Drinkity? Miss Daisy is a flop n a half. Miss Daisy would rev request you for 33c tin of salmon
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Il mondo stava andando in contro a dei gran cambiamenti ma in America usciva il film dell’autista di colore che porta in giro la vecchia razzista per trent’anni.
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How does one make a movie set during Jim Crow era south without taking a hard stance either direction??? Made my skin crawl in a weird way
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Racist lady hires uber. Not a lot happens, it is a nice movie but it was bland. I wish there was more on how miss Daisy could have changed throughout the film. So many parts seemed like they were the stepping stones for her to stand up to someone racist, or give hoke more respect and human decency. But then it just, didn’t happen. Never invited him to eat with her, never invited him to the MLK event, didn’t stand…
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Entrañable. Morgan Freeman y Jessica Tandy tandem de 10
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Driving Miss Daisy is painfully slow and dull. Jesus. This won Best Picture? The worst one I’ve seen so far. But a bore.
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Those that know know I HATE this score (and I still do) but the rest of the movie is really charming. Not really my speed for the most part but still quite enjoyable nonetheless
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İnsanlar bu filmi best picture award qazanıb deyə linç edirlər. Amma mənim dünyamda bu film həqiqətən səhnələriylə düşüncələrimi,dağınıq zehnimi yenilədi. Freshlənmiş kimi hiss edirəm. Çəkiliş tərzi,rəngarənglik,soft tonlar hər biri möhtəşəm idi. Toxunaqlı bir dostluq hekayəsi deyildi amma həm də elə idi. Minnətdaram ki ikisindən birinin ölümünü görmədən bitirdilər sonluğu bu məni ciddən sevindirən detal idi.
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This has to be what Jordan Peele wrote Get Out about
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De mayor quiero ser como Morgan Freeman
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le decía q era su bff pq no la aguantaba nadie, chillo
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Incredibile come Morgan Freeman sembrasse più vecchio negli anni 80 che adesso
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Intouchables before Intouchables
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Classic
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Got me thinking about how the people who take care of us rarely get thanked properly until it’s almost too late. Hoke never gets a grand speech about what Daisy means to him, he doesn’t need one.
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You’re telling me THIS won best picture?
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Visually, there’s a lot to admire in terms of scenery and cinematography, and the coloring is great as well, but thematically, it makes for an uncomfortable and rather frustrating watch. It’s heavily dated, and in no way, shape or form whatsoever deserving of the Best Picture Oscar, especially in comparisons to movies like Do the Right Thing, and while some of the performances were pretty good, I can’t really say I’d be inclined to watch it again any time soon… 5/10
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Honestly it’s sad how getting old can also lead to being lonely. This movie does a wonderful job at showing that. But the characters in this are great. Every actor does wonderful jobs
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Story is fine and some of the character wardrobe is on point, but this winning aganist “Dead Poets Society” or anything else for Best Picture is criminal.
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jamais vu un film aussi effrayé de s’approcher des questions politiques qu’il décide lui-même d’aborder, bref vrmt un navet👎
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Driving Miss Daisy es el ejemplo perfecto de ir sobre seguro. Tiene una historia decente con toques cómicos que no me ha resultado pesada. Y pese a que, como digo, no arriesgue en ninguno de los temas que toca, aún así está bien. La mejor parte, sin duda, es el final. Me gustó que ella siga teniendo su carácter, tan desagradable que resulta gracioso, y que siga acordándose de Hoke, me resultó muy gratificante.
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أجواء أفلام نهاية الثمانينات – بداية التسعينات لها طابع جميل جدًا صعب تحصله فالأعمال الجديدة
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Un film delicato, intelligente e profondamente umano. Il rapporto tra Daisy e Hoke permette di affrontare temi come razzismo, vecchiaia, amicizia e dignità con grande sensibilità. Jessica Tandy e Morgan Freeman sono straordinari. Un film che riesce a emozionare senza mai risultare eccessivo. English A delicate, intelligent, and deeply human film. The relationship between Daisy and Hoke allows the movie to explore racism, aging, friendship, and dignity with remarkable sensitivity. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman are outstanding. A movie that is genuinely moving without becoming excessive.
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antes de ver la peli pensaba q miss daisy era un perro morgan freeman parece el mismo en todas las pelis (sabio y majeton)
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Il sait pas lire mais il est chauffeur, comment il fait pour lire les panneaux ? -> aka la question qui m’a hanté tout le film TT Des pov de qd tu dis à un riche qu’il est riche.
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It’s a film with a heartwarming story and great performances. The story touches on some social issues in the southern states during the latter half of the twentieth century. I’m not sure if it deserves Best Picture though.
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no entiendo como no se llevó el oscar Morgan Freeman. Y Jessica Tandy, oscar super merecido con 81 años la tía
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Filme confortável, mas com intuito de fazer pra gente branca se sentir menos culpada pelo racismo praticado há anos. Ela é muito chapa branco, ele tenta falar do racismo mas ao mesmo tempo que não tentar demostrar direito, é bem fraco a críticas sociais e raciais, além que há aquele dilema de salvador branco que ele é bonzinho e tal e só precisa se adapta e mesmo assim ls negros aíndam servem e aproveita a desigualdade racial para se aproveitar em cima deles
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mission to 1000 movies of 2026: movie 750 it’s a real shame that this movie sucks because Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy really work well together. they have some impeccable chemistry. HOWEVER i don’t begin to see a reason where this wins over Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams OR Born on the Fourth of July. are we DEADASS????
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it was great for the time it was made and released in
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Daisy killed Odella and gave her a stroke through the constant nagging.
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who’s cutting onions ?!
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J
After visiting my hometown, this was an essential rewatch. Great movie.
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Excruciatingly safe Academy darling that yet again sees a spiteful protagonist hammered into shape by the unyielding compassion of an oppressed minority. Tandy is pretty insufferable as the titular old woman here so the movie relies entirely on some classic Morgan Freeman charm to remain watchable. It’s genuinely unfathomable to me that something as antiquated as this could have won in the same year that the unnominated Do the Right Thing was released.
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My mother is a little… high strung. Second viewing today; this was a rewatch on the big screen at The Revival House Perth on 35mm film. The print was in good nick with very few blemishes and only minor fading, and it was a fun revisiting the film with a large, laughing audience, even if I only laughed myself on occasion. The appeal of the film (at least to me) in any case is rather the gradual bonding and growing…
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man of infinite patience
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No entiendo las malas críticas que he llegado a ver sobre esta película, la verdad. Si que es verdad que no se merecía ganar mejor película por delante de dead poets society
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No es una película para tener 4 Oscars, uno de ellos el de mejor película. De hecho, no me sorprende la valoración que le dan aquí de 3.3, porque me parece muy complicado que a alguien le parezca más de un 4. A mi me entró muy bien ahora y por eso le pongo esta nota, pero no me pareció ningún espectáculo. Es una película de tarde de domingo a más no poder.
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For those who enjoy watching a typically screen-stealing Morgan Freeman play an endlessly pliable driver for an abusive white woman with minimal subtext, focus, or real narrative progression, Driving Miss Daisy is just for you. If you’re like me… it won’t be.
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The most nothing movie ever. Except a good argument against living a long time. The best thing about it is how mad it made that idiot Spike Lee.
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الفلم بسيط وهادئ وجميل ، الحوارات كانت من نقاط القوة للفلم ، كانت جميلة وممتازة جداً جداً وتخليك تحس بالعلاقة يلي بينهم ، السيناريو كان متوقع نسبياً أو بالاحرى بسيط وغير عميق ، المخرج كان ممتاز جداً ويخليك تحس بمضي الوقت بدون ما تلاحظ تدبدب او تغير العلاقة وهذا الشي يحسب للمخرج ، الاداء كان افضل شيء في الفلم جيسيكا تاندي ومرغان فريمان قدمو معركة تمثيلية وقدمو أداءات ممتازة ، جيسيكا تاندي يلي حققت الاوسكار عن هذا الدور وكانت تستاهل…
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A pretty simple movie that is helped by the great chemistry Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy have. Their relationship carries the whole movie, and watching them slowly become friends is pretty solid. Now, I’m pretty shocked this won Best Picture because I don’t think there’s really anything special about it. It’s just one of those easy, simple movies that usually doesn’t get many awards. Seeing the competition it was up against, I’m even more shocked it won. It’s a good movie that’s worth the watch, but I wouldn’t call it a critical masterpiece.
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una bonita historia de una triste realidad 🙁 parece cosa del pasado pero no
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He’s her best friend.
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yo también quiero llegar a los 95 años
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trilha sonora perfeita
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Cuando sea viejita pienso gastar todos mis ahorros en un chofer solo por esta peli.
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One of Spike Lee’s least favorite films of all time together with Green Book. Lol.
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Honestly not a terrible film – though not exactly what I would consider a ‘best picture winner’. The acting from both Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy was pretty great, and it did, at moments, give me the feels. I have considered many times whether or not I should create a best picture winners ranking list, but then I remembered that I would have to actually watch them – yeah not so keen on that right now…
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Well you’d be a cranky old lady too if you put some more effort into it! Drive yourself around then how bout?!?!
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Pràcticament no es deté en cap dels temes que crec que intenta tocar, però tot i així m’ha semblat tendre!
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اهخخخ
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“Driving Miss Daisy to a Care Home”👵🏼 The best way to win an Oscar is make a 3 hour movie in a different county or be extremely racist and this was the latter. Too much for me to handle and just a silly story. Good acting but just a pointless movie. I don’t know how it even won.
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I’d very much like to own Miss Daisy’s house. It’s a very pretty house. All that wood and tile? Wallpaper? I love.
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i feel like they don’t ever really even?? show any of the actual development of their relationship??? like yeah she sort of changes and sees him as her best friend and whatever but we don’t ever see how any of that happens it’s so fucking vanilla and boring i cant believe this won awards
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Contexte de la production À la fin des années 1980, le cinéma américain commence à revisiter plus directement les fractures raciales de son histoire. Driving Miss Daisy, adapté de la pièce d’Alfred Uhry, arrive dans un contexte où Hollywood s’intéresse davantage aux relations entre communautés et aux conséquences durables de la ségrégation. Le film est réalisé par l’Australien Bruce Beresford et repose presque entièrement sur trois personnages. Sa mise en scène est volontairement discrète : pas de grandes scènes spectaculaires,…
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It’s fine, just not much there
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Jjustice4plutoo 8 月 12, 2026
morgan freeman 🙂
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The Oscars love when a White person learns a lesson from a Black American while driving through the racist South.
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the pie scene genuinely made me tear up, love morgan freeman in this
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When Harry Met Sally and Do the Right Thing were the victims of a highway robbery. The perpetrators in question? Morgan Freeman saying “Miss Daisy” at least 90 times in 90 minutes and an 80 year old Jessica Tandy in, get this, old age makeup. Batman, Indiana Jones, and Indiana Jones’s father are hot on their tale… and have been for nearly 40 years. Looks like poor Best Picture Oscar circa 1990 will never return to either of its rightful owners. A crying shame.
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Maybe I’m not doing my due diligence as an Enlightened White Gen-Zer by giving this movie a passing grade, but my horizons can only be so broad at any given time. Who knows, maybe once I get to all those Angela Davis books on my reading list I’ll have more intense feelings about what is possibly the most timid movie about racism that anyone has ever made. The film’s great strength, at least to me, is just how good it…
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Ssibill 8 月 12, 2026
это могли быть мы (я реально черный)
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Prefiero a Green Book.
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Drinking game idea: Take a shot everytime Hoke says “Yes’m.” This winning Best Picture over Dead Poets Society is probably the worst thing that could have possibly happened to this film. I don’t believe there is any reason to hate on this film, though. It’s a little dated but its heartwarming story deserves to be seen at least once. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman compliment each other nicely as Daisy and Hoke, respectively. The former’s character development is really striking…
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Good performances, but it keeps turning away from every opportunity to show something uncomfortable. Racism and anti-Semitism are alluded to, but kept firmly off screen; the story we see is pared down to its gentlest and most sentimental form. There’s something potentially evocative in the final image of Hoke feeding Daisy a piece of Thanksgiving pie (the complexity of the American Dream, and how time can both deteriorate and heal), but I don’t think the movie earns it.
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Of the Oscar winners with a racial agenda on the docket, the sanguine, sapient ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ isn’t the most presumptuous and benighted. No one can’t fault the performances of Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. They’re unimpeachable as the curmudgeonly widow and her acquiescing chauffeur. In fact, the friendship between the two is winsome. As a chamber piece inside and around Hoke’s (Freeman) town car, Alfred Uhry forges an ironclad screenplay of scintillating dialogue in which their ideologies clash in…
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Came to this one more from loving Beresford’s “Tender Mercies” (and his previous Aussie movies “Puberty Blues” and “Money Movers”) than from a perverse desire to watch the Evil Best Picture Winner that shut out the best film of the year (and decade), “Do the Right Thing.” But is this even the worst best picture winner? I’d say “Crash” & “Green Book” are worse as racially-charged winners go, and I have a strong distaste for “A Beautiful Mind” and “Birdman.” Sure,…
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Que bonita peli, y que pena que al hacerte mayor te pase eso
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Morgan Freeman gave an extremely forgettable performance. I don’t even know how they managed that.
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[WATCHING EVERY OSCAR BEST PICTURE IN A YEAR 62 OUT OF 98] We did it boys. We ended racism. Glad that’s all sorted and nobody needs to make this exact film again in 30 years time. Nahhh it’s not actually as patronising as I thought it might be – it offers jjjjjjust enough subtley for racial prejudice to clearly be There while still being one factor of the characters’ burgeoning, multi-faceted friendship, that is until it completely shits the bed…
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Didn’t watch the first 15 mins because I was finishing the shining and my mom kept trying to explain the plot as a sweet friendship movie about a little old lady and my brother kept cutting in and being like “the old lady is a racist btw” and mom was like “she is not racist!”. Well anyway the first scene I saw was Miss Daisy finding the salmon can :/ sooo my brother was right
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two very good performances in a not very good movie. i love that jessica tandy won for a late in life performance but i wish it was for a better movie. morgan freeman is excellent as always but again, i wish he had better material. fun bit performance from patti lupone, and the idea of her being a republican national committeewoman is very funny to me. incredible accent work from jessica tandy, would never know she was british. not much to say, i don’t think i’m eager to rewatch anytime soon. “it’s 7:16!” “you should have a job on the radio announcing the time”
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I warned my wife after watching this that she was in for 48-72 hours of me replying “yes’m” to any request.
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Eh
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Miss Daisy centenaria los va a enterrar a todos.
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Es como Greenbook pero 30 años antes y peor, pero las dos con un Oscar a mejor película. Llama la atención porque peleaba con El club de los Poetas muertos. Locura 🙂
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Great score But the weak allusions to, without tackling, any raw or substantial themes was Driving Me Crazy
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Милый фильм про работу еврейки и чернокожий, все что вы можете ожидать от такого там будет еще и с харизматичным фрименом
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This is like eating a pre-made dinner from the supermarket: it tastes fine, everything’s exactly on your terms and it stills your hunger without any real effort. The film works in a similar manner. It’s lighthearted, doesn’t provoke anybody and leaves you feeling good by the time it’s over. But there’s just nothing more to it. Surely Morgan Freeman is great and the tender moments do land as genuinely heartfelt at times, although they lean towards overdone melodramatics in others.…
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Así son las relaciones humanas
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Insanely slow movie but charming. Definitely a nice feel good movie and enjoyed watching but there is only so much you can do with a movie about a guy driving an old lady around. Still entertaining though, and sweet ending. Morgan freeman is awesome “go on away from here now” I wish I had a black nanny
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Boring
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No se porque todo el mundo odia a miss daisy es igual que cualquier mujer mayor y es completmente normal. A mi me ha gustado la peli y me ha matado el ”Hoke you’re my best friend”
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Driving Miss حيزبونة
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What “Driving Miss Daisy” lacks in energy and forward momentum it trades for a slow burn examination of the relationship of Hoke & Miss Daisy over many years. While I did enjoy it, as well as the somewhat heavy-handed commentary on racism and on growing old, I thought the movie was overall not very exciting or surprising. The best part was definitely that very last shot, which I found to be quite moving.
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I didn’t know I was such a sucker for race relations movies
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Tiene un encanto muy particular y es una buena forma de tratar sutilmente el envejecer y la pérdida de independencia. La señora lo hace genial y no sé por qué, pero le tengo muchísimo cariño a Morgan Freeman.
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Music is dated. 2 for one on the victims otherwise not bad
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Hydration Game: Drink a full glass of water every time Miss Daisy complains about anything.
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„Ich tue mein Bestes Miss Daisy.“ „Ich auch.“ „Tja, das ist wohl so ziemlich alles, dass man tun kann. Nicht wahr?“ Man merkt dem Film sein Alter an. Für mich funktioniert die modernere Variante Green Book besser. Wieder einen Oscargewinner von der Watchlist genommen ✅
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Fico you miss Davis
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Sød film.
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EEvan 8 月 8, 2026
This movie feels like it has ambition, perhaps misguided, of which it falls short.
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WOOF. The fact that this won Best Picture and Do The Right Thing wasn’t even nominated kind of says it all, doesn’t it
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Saccharine and decaffeinated. This movie is as dull as it is offensive. It has the same Forrest Gump stench of “good-hearted neutrality,” but with even less to offer. What I find particularly outrageous is the decision to make Miss Daisy Jewish. The film seems to use her Jewish identity as a plot shield, softening and excusing the fact that she is a wealthy, racist white woman. It creates a false equivalence between her experience as an American Jewish and the systemic racism faced by Black Americans.
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I enjoyed this but didn’t really get the hype, sorry
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فيلم هادئ وبسيط، يعتمد أكثر على الشخصيات والعلاقة التي تتطور بينهما مع مرور السنوات. أكثر ما أعجبني هو أداء جيسيكا تاندي ومورغان فريمان، خصوصًا الطريقة التي تغيرت بها العلاقة بين الآنسة ديزي وهوك مع الوقت، دون الحاجة إلى مبالغات درامية. الفيلم يتناول العنصرية والاختلافات الاجتماعية بطريقة مباشرة وهادئة، لكن بالنسبة لي أحداثه كانت بسيطة أكثر من اللازم، ولم أشعر أنه من الأفلام التي تترك أثرًا كبيرًا. ومع ذلك، الكاست والأداءات والأجواء الهادئة أعطته قيمة واضحة، وأفهم سبب حصوله على الأوسكار…
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Pleasant and moving, clear yet subtle, this is an issue film that handles its issue well without being preachy or overbearing. Not pat or didactic, no one acts out of character for the sake of heroic moralizing. Dan Aykroyd’s Boolie Werthan, for instance, does not take any selfless stand against racism, opting instead for self-preservation in his stable career and the consensus-building integral to his career advancement. Jessica Tandy’s Daisy Werthan likewise gives no effusive speech of cathartic confession to…
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Driving Miss Daisy doesn’t rely on big moments or dramatic twists. Instead, it gently builds a beautiful friendship against the backdrop of a changing society. What touched me the most was how naturally their relationship evolved over time. The film never rushes, and that’s exactly why the emotions feel so genuine. Simple, sincere, and incredibly heartwarming. Time changes people, but friendship has a way of preserving the best parts of us. If you appreciate character-driven stories, take a ride with this one. It’s worth every mile. Good watch and feels like reading a literarture !!
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“When Driving Miss Motherf—ing Daisy won Best Picture, that hurt!” ผู้กำกับ Spike Lee กล่าวถึงชัยชนะของ Driving Miss Daisy มองเป็นความอัปยศของสถาบัน Academy ซึ่งกาลเวลาแทบไม่มีใครจดจำภาพยนตร์ยอดเยี่ยมเรื่องนี้สักเท่าไหร่ raremeat.blog/driving-miss-daisy-1989/
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MMic_aela 6 月 15, 1990
Date very roughly guessed
- Synopsis
- 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 were shunned.
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writer
- Alfred Uhry
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Majestic Films International, Allied Filmmakers, The Zanuck Company
- Country
- USA, UK
- Language
- English, Hebrew (modern)
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 99 mins
- USA11 Dec 1989
- Germany01 Feb 1990
- USA13 Dec 1989
- USA26 Jan 1990
- UK23 Feb 1990
- Argentina08 Mar 1990
- Portugal09 Mar 1990
- Australia15 Mar 1990
- Ireland23 Mar 1990
- Taiwan24 Mar 1990
- Netherlands06 Apr 1990
- Belgium25 Apr 1990
- Denmark27 Apr 1990
- Japan12 May 1990
- France13 Jun 1990
- Hungary13 Dec 1990
- United Arab Emirates18 Feb 2008
- Netherlands02 Oct 2009
- Netherlands11 Sep 2012
- Netherlands05 Apr 2002
- Poland10 Jul 2014
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