Driving Miss Daisy

Comedy, Drama

Morgan Freeman	Hoke Colburn
Dan Aykroyd	Boolie Werthan
Patti Lupone	Florine Werthan
Esther Rolle	Idella
Jessica Tandy	Daisy Werthan
Joann Havrilla	Miss McClatchey
William Hall Jr.	Oscar
Alvin M. Sugarman	Dr. Weil
Clarice F. Geigerman	Nonie
Muriel Moore	Miriam

Director	Bruce Beresford
Producer	Richard D. Zanuck; David Brown
Writer	Alfred Uhry
Cinematography	Peter James
Musician	Hans Zimmer

In the 1989 Academy Award winner for Best Picture Miss Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) is an aging southern widow in 1948. When she runs over the neighbor's wall backing out of her driveway she is forced to hire chauffeur, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) takes the job. Miss Daisy is a headstrong willful woman, who has little interest in being driven by someone else, but her son Boolie (Dan Akroyd) hires Hoke himself so that she can't fire him. As Miss Daisy gradually learns to accept her chauffeur, she also begins to become more aware of things going on in the world, and how Hoke is treated differently due to his race. The two eventually grow old together and come to more accepting of each other, both learning in the process.