Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989)

This is by far, one of my favorite movies of all time. I am not sure if it would be in my top ten, but it comes close. I know that no matter how many times I have seen it, i still find it so touching. The story of true friendship, of an unlikely friendship. I always love movies set in the south during the civil rights period. It is a period in our history in this country, that still breaks my heart. I am obsessed with it, I find it so upsetting, and fascinating at the same time. I seldom skip a movie about this time period or topic. Racism to me, is the worst thing there is...I think thats why I loved "Crash" so much, because its a topic that still just breaks my heart. So Driving Miss Daisy, such a sweet and beautiful story. Such amazing performances, by both Jessica Tandy (who won the Oscar that year) and of course, the always stellar Morgan Freeman, (who sadly, did not win that year) I think it was my favorite performance by him. I have seen many others that were great, "The Shawshank Redemption" comes to mind. But this character just really touched me. This was a rough year for me at Oscar time, there were so many movies that I loved. It was a classic year, we had that crazy Oscar party, and Lis and I made that silly video and Scott was there, we dressed up in fancy dresses and everything. Its pretty funny to watch now! It was the first year that I really made it a point to see everything nominated, and have done so ever since (or at the very least, tried to see them all) I had been in love with the Oscars for years prior to this, but this was the first year I made it into such a huge fuss for myself. A lot of great movies came out that year, but this was my favorite.