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Driving Miss Daisy
AUSTRALIA · 1989

Driving Miss Daisy

Bruce Beresford
cross-racial friendship class differences aging and mortality racial segregation in the American South unlikely bonds
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Synopsis

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

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