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3/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 04/27/2020
The warm friendship that forms the meat of this Oscar winning drama remains engaging. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman are both good in their respective roles. It's admittedly surprising this won Best Picture in a lineup that included My Left Foot, Field of Dreams, Dead Poets Society, and Born on the Fourth of July. Cynics will call the movie schmaltzy but its sentimentality seems natural.
Rating of
3/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 05/28/2019
What the film says is sentimental and moving, but if the Academy wanted to award Best Picture to a movie that touches on race in a actually substantial way, then they should have chosen to nominate Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
Rating of
3/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 03/17/2016
While Driving Miss Daisy isn't what I call a best picture winner, since there were more deserving movies that came out that year, but the movie shouldn't get hate just for that. The movie is sweet, charming and heartwarming. It's the kind of movie that granny's go to watch and after it's over their something like "That was nice". Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy were excellent in this movie, as both of them had great chemistry and very entertaining conversations between them. It dose get kind of dull at times and i do wish the films pasting was a bit better, but that's just me. I say it's worth checking out, because there's plenty to like and appreciate in this movie.
Rating of
2.5/4
Unknown - wrote on 04/19/2014
A nice story about the evolution of a friendship. Tandy is good, but she doesn't generate as much sincerity as Freeman. Then again, who does? It's not that I didn't like the film. I thought it was entirely just 'fine'. I felt the whole process was a routine exercise in pleasantly dramatic fluff. Well made, for what it is, but not for my particular interest. I still find it hard to believe that this won Best Picture above all the other great films of 1989.
Rating of
3.5/4
Ikkinbot - wrote on 07/15/2010
A great drama with a lot of humor in it. Jessica Tandy is great in this.
Rating of
3/4
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 01/21/2010
A good duel character character study. This film mostly involves a fussy old woman and her much more content but also older driver. It is a fully nice film and every scene of this movie is nice. It also does have depth showing the racial relations well without doing any cheap exploitative scenes to get cheap emotions out of the viewer. It earns all of the emotions it seeks and every scene is done with great intelligence with the characters changes through the movie being proper and not forced.
Rating of
3/4
Rainmaker203 - wrote on 11/22/2008
Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy shine in this stellar drama.
Rating of
3/4
kustaa - wrote on 10/19/2007
Not bad, not awesome. The acting is indeed great but it doesn't seems at the very first viewing like a movie that will last forever.
