Movie Critic review: Driving Miss Daisy
On The Ticket Line A movie that depicts the friendship between a rich, elderly middle class woman and her chauffeur of nearly the same age is very likely a bore. But if this woman is a Jew and the driver a black man then a curious quiver would run up your spine. And If the setting for the story is the southern state of Georgia, USA just after world war two, then Bingo! You have something to see. You are on the ticket line wondering why such a movie is categorized as a comic drama as both these two types of people suffered from prejudices by the dominant majority either in the form of segregation, in the case of the blacks or, isolation in the case of Jews. Later, you learn that the humor is one dynamic of the movie that grows each time you watch it or recall it! It is consistently heard from people who saw the movie that they didn't remember there was so much humor on first time. This is an attribute of a classic movie. What Is The Story Screen-written from a 1987 off-Broadway pl...