you are.ĭriving Miss Daisy is a Pulitzer Prize winning 1987 play by Alfred Uhry, later adapted for the screen by its playwright and director Bruce Beresford, into a 1989 comedy-drama film and 1989's Best Picture Academy Award winner. Boolie, now 65, drives Hoke to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, now 97.Daisy Werthan: No, really. In 1973, Hoke, now 85 and rapidly losing his eyesight, retires. Hoke calms her down with a conversation in which Daisy calls Hoke her "best friend." Boolie arranges for Miss Daisy to enter a retirement home. Hoke arrives at the house one morning in 1971 to find Miss Daisy agitated and showing signs of dementia, believing she is a young teacher again. However, Miss Daisy only asks him to be her guest during the car ride to the event and ends up attending the dinner alone, with Hoke, insulted by the manner of the invitation, listening to the speech on the car radio outside. She initially invites Boolie to the dinner, but he declines, and suggests that Miss Daisy invite Hoke. But American society is undergoing radical changes, and Miss Daisy attends a dinner at which Dr. After her synagogue is bombed, Miss Daisy realizes that she is also a victim of prejudice. The film also touches on anti-semitism in the South. The film explores racism against African American people, which affects Hoke at the time. After Idella dies in 1962, rather than hire a new housekeeper, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and have Hoke do the cooking and the driving. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let anyone else drive her, but gradually accedes to the arrangement.Īs Miss Daisy and Hoke spend time together, she gains appreciation for his many skills.
When Miss Daisy drives her 1946 Chrysler Windsor into her neighbor's yard, her 40-year-old son Boolie buys her a 1949 Hudson Commodore and hires Hoke Colburn, an African American chauffeur. In 1948, Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, a 72-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired schoolteacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for an African American housekeeper, Idella.
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