Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Thu 7 Jun, 7 pm. 3800 Kalmia Ave, Boulder, 80301. Linda Loewenstein, Executive Director, 303-447-3313, bjcf@qwest.net. Boulder Jewish Community Center - [events]

Directed by Bruce Beresford Starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd When Daisy Werthan and her chauffeur Hoke are pulled over in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, the suspicious Southern police officers check their identification and send them on their way. "There goes an old nigger and an old Jew woman," one of the rednecks sneers to the other as they drive off. "That's one sorry sight." The story of the unlikely friendship that develops over the course of 25 years between a genteel Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal employee (Morgan Freeman), "Driving Miss Daisy" examines the uneasy relationship between members of two persecuted minorities, a complex, tricky subject not often explored in film. Alfred Uhry loosely based his three-pe