How do people make friends? Most of the time people are introduced by mutual friends, or they find they have something in common when they are kids. Most of the time your children don't hire someone to drive you around and force them to be apart of your life. That is what Boolie Werthan did to his mother Daisy. Miss Daisy woke up one morning to go and run errands and crashed her car into the neighbors driveway. We find that this was not the first time she has crashed her car in recent years. Her son decided that she needs to not being driving anymore. He bought her a new car, and along with the car came the driver that he hired for his mother, Hoke Colburn. Miss Daisy does not take kindly to Hoke at first, being that she sees him as the theft of her freedom to come and go as she pleases. However, Miss Daisy has finally met her match with Hoke. He is just as stubborn as she is and finally wears her down to allow him to drive her around where she needs to go. When she finally allows herself to become used to being driven around she see that there is more to Hoke than just being her chauffeur. After 25 years of this business arrangement Miss Daisy learns that Hoke means so much more to her than just being her chauffeur.
This sweet tale of friendship was nominated had a big year at the 1990 Academy Awards. It was nominated for nine awards and won four of them. Driving Miss Daisy currently holds the record for Miss Daisy herself, Jessica Tandy. Tandy won the Best Actress for her role at Miss Daisy and is currently the oldest person to win the Best Actress Award, she was 81 at the time. Driving Miss Daisy is also the first film since Grande Hotel to win Best Picture without the Director being nominated as well. Warner Brothers has the honor of being nominated for Best Picture this year with a list of other movies that would go on to be classic in their own right. Driving Miss Daisy beat out: Universal's Born on the Fourth of July and Field of Dreams; Touchstone's Dead Poets Society; and Miramax's My Left Foot.
Driving Miss Daisy and what I call a sneaky movie. Not because of the plot of anything but because of the timing of its release. In order to be nominated to an Academy Award the movie have to come out between January 1st and December 31st of the previous year. For example, Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture in the year 1990, but it was for the year 1989. Driving Miss Daisy was released for a limited release in December on 1989, and didn't go nationwide until early January in 1990. The crazy thing is that Driving Miss Daisy was only showed in three theaters during it's limited release. The movie made $73,745 in the three theaters in one weekend during its limited release. Driving Miss Daisy became the highest earning movie of 1989. This film more than deserved to win Best Picture. This film shows the true meaning of friendship in how it grows and how it shapes you as a person. It's a movie that lets you see that first impressions of people are not always right and that they can change. It's a film that needs to be experience again and again and shown to all of your best friends. There is a reason that this movie is a classic and if anyone tells you otherwise has not seen this movie.
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