When Daisy Werthan (Dame Angela Lansbury), a widowed, seventy-two-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, Georgia, is deemed too old to drive, her son, Boolie (Boyd Gaines), hires Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones), an African-American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them.

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When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them.

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