Driving Miss Daisy
Atlanta chauffeur story
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 film about an elderly Southern Jewish woman and her Black chauffeur, exploring race relations and aging in mid-20th-century America.
The phrase has become shorthand for chauffeuring someone around, often with undertones of servitude or patience: I spent all day driving Miss Daisy—taking my mother to six different appointments.
- Academy AwardTop Hollywood honor
- Best PictureCinema's supreme annual prize
- AtlantaGeorgia's capital city
- friendshipBond of mutual affection
- chauffeurProfessional hired driver
Morgan Freeman · back seat · African American · civil rights movement · Jim Crow · race relations · hoke · aging · Southern culture · Pulitzer Prize · segregation · adaptation · trust-building · playwright · play · racism · drama · screenplay
- 1989 FilmsBatman, Dead Poets Society, Do the Right Thing, Glory, Field of Dreams
- Road MoviesEasy Rider, Thelma and Louise, National Lampoon's Vacation, Rain Man, Dumb and Dumber
- PlaysHamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear
- Oscar WinnersTitanic, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Gladiator, Schindler's List
- Elderly ProtagonistsHercule Poirot, wise elder, grandfather figure, golden ager
Driving Miss DaisyDie Hard
Yippee-ki-yay thriller
John Wick · action film · Top Gun · The Bourne Identity · Transformers
Driving Miss DaisyRambo
Recklessly aggressive lone fighter
Terminator 2 · Predator · Kill Bill · The Expendables · Friday the 13th
Driving Miss DaisyDo the Right Thing
1989 Brooklyn racial drama
Malcolm X · Selma · 13th · confrontational · Detroit
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