Driving Miss Daisy Resources

The film's got an 82% fresh rating—almost as good as Daisy's pickles.

There's no website for Driving Miss Daisy, but if you're senior citizen in Canada who needs a ride, give Driving Miss Daisy Senior Services a call.

Based on Uhry's play, Driving Miss Daisy is periodically revived on stage, like in 2011 with James Earl Jones.

Even Dame Joan Plowright couldn't save this failed 1992 pilot for a Miss Daisy TV show.

Paul Rudd—yes, that Paul Rudd—made his Broadway debut in Alfred Uhry's play The Last Night of Ballyhoo, so he's a natural to interview the playwright and ask him about his experience translating Daisy from stage to screen.

Ebert gives Driving Miss Daisy two thumbs up. We hope he kept those thumbs at 10 and 2 while driving, though.

The New York Times praised Miss Daisy for being theatrical yet realistic, like Miss Daisy herself.

Morgan Freeman said that when white southern audiences came backstage after the 1987 off-Broadway production of Daisy saying it reminded them of their childhoods, he was worried that the play was causing nostalgia for the era of segregation. But he checked with some black friends, and they said it was just about a relationship between two people. They all remembered a grandpa or uncle like Hoke.

Can't get enough Miss Daisy? The failed TV sitcom pilot has the music, the car, and actors who look nothing like the characters in the movie.

Driving Miss Daisy was the subject of many parodies. One of our favorites is this, from the John Ritter comedy Stay Tuned (1992).

After this interview with Jessica Tandy, you'll be saying to yourself—she was British? It's called ACTING.

Someone keep an eye on James Earl Jones, because Morgan Freeman says he would have killed anyone else who would have gotten the role of Hoke.

Siskel and Ebert spoil the whole movie.

Watch the full performance of Angela Lansbury as Miss Daisy, aired on PBS. Shockingly, no one is murdered in her presence.

Driving Miss Daisy was revived in Houston in 2015. Speaking with Houston Public Radio, with an authentic Southern accent, the director says it's still relevant today.

Playing at the movie theater in Daisy's town is Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! It's not a weird Southern catchphrase, it's a real movie featuring Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe.

…and we don't mean Miss Daisy. They don't make cars like this anymore.

Here's the original poster for the film, which reveals a ton about the characters in one subtle image.