Driving Miss Daisy

(1989; screens Sunday at 11 a.m.)

Bruce Beresford's film of Alfred Uhry's play is about how Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), an aging Southern-Jewish widow, and Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), the black chauffeur her son hires for her, become the most intimate of friends without ever violating the division between their social roles. The film, which spans two and a half decades (from 1948) is a flirtation, a dance. And the acting is superb. Freeman gives Hoke a gentlemanly elegance; Tandy brings a proud, tough-bird humor to her role; and Dan Aykroyd is a revelation as Miss Daisy's son.