Driving Miss Daisy
Format:
Video disc
Title:
Driving Miss Daisy
ISBN:
9780790772370
9781419892561
9780790730981
Edition:
Special edition.
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Pictures : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2003.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1989.
Special features: Cast & crew [text feature]; Trailer (2 min.); Commentary [optional audio feature]; Awards [text feature]; Jessica Tandy: theatre legend to screen star [featurette] (7 min.); Driving Miss Daisy [Original featurette] (6 min.); Miss Daisy's journey: From stage to screen [featurette] (19 min.).
Contents:
Accident -- Without a car -- Hoke to the rescue -- Chauffeur in the house -- Uneasy relations -- Drive to the store -- Putting on airs -- Missing salmon -- Cemetery reading lesson -- Werthan Christmas -- Car changes hands -- Bound for Mobile -- Troopers -- Alone in the dark -- Negotiations -- Idella's death -- Ice storm -- Temple bombing -- King dinner -- My best friend -- Old acquaintances -- Thanksgiving visit -- End credits.
Summary:
In 1948, Miss Daisy Werthan, an elderly, cranky ex-school teacher from Atlanta, crashes her new Packard through a retaining wall into her neighbor's yard. Her concerned son Boolie reasons she no longer is able to drive herself, and over her strenuous objections hires the gentle, tactful, and wily black widower Hoke Colburn to be her chauffeur. As a Jew, Miss Daisy is also the victim of prejudice, and she gradually overcomes her subconscious bigotry to see Hoke as a true friend. Beginning in frostiness, their slow changing relationship mirrors the changing racial climate in the south through the burgeoning of civil rights movement.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Rated PG; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated PG.
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