Driving Miss Daisy
Submitted by thenutmeg21 on May 29, 2009
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Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy, (1989) a screen play by Alfred Uhry and directed by Bruce Beresford, takes place in post-World War II Atlanta, Georgia. The main character of the movie is Miss Daisy Werthan, a Jewish widow in her seventies. The movie begins with her putting her car into the wrong gear, and going in reverse into her neighbor’s yard. Thus, her son, Boolie Werthan, believes that no insurance companies would want to insure her after this incident. At his business, Werthan Industries, he runs across a man by the name of Hoke Colborn, who is an older black man with a lot of driving experience. He used to drive for the Dairy Center, as well as the popular Judge Stone. After Hoke shows his...
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