National Review, February 19th, 1990
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy accomplishes the impossible task of transferring a small, intimate three-character play that uses specifically theatrical, non-naturalistic devices to the realistic screen without losing its modest, bittersweet charm. Well, to be quite honest, it does lose some, but not enough to prevent the movie from being penetrant and affecting in its own right. For this we must thank Alfred Uhry, who adopted his own play, and Bruce Beresford, who directed with unostentatious finesse.
Miss Daisy, based on Uhry's grandmother, is a retired Jewish school-teacher in At...
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