Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is an American comedy-drama film released on December 15, 1989 directed by Bruce Beresford and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry of the same name.

In 1948, after a driving mishap, a reluctantly seventy-two years old wealthy Jewish widow, Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) can no longer drive because no insurance company will cover her. Her son, Boolie Werthan (Dan Aykroyd) tells  her she will have to get a chauffeur, which in that time meant a black man (the racial attitudes and prejudices of that time). 

An African-American man, Hoke colburn (Morgan Freeman) was hired by Boolie as Ms Daisy's new chauffeur against his mother protests. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let Hoke drive her, going so far as to walk to the local supermarket, Piggly Wiggly with Hoke following her by automobile, much to her chagrin. Her reluctance to be driven around is because she is embarrassed that people might think she is either too elderly to drive or so well off that she can pay for a driver. Out of necessity, Miss Daisy gradually starts to accept Hoke and the fact that she needs him to drive her around.

A wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur. Both have a different back groups. Hoke because of his skin color, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot fathom Miss Daisy's cloistered inability to grasp the social changes that are sweeping the South in the 1960s. Nor can Miss Daisy understand why Hoke's "people" are so indignant. Even though they continued to bicker, an unlikely remarkable friendship was beginning to form between them as the years pass.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest ... ... 

It's about who came and never left your side ... ...

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