Hysterically, I was just talking to my friend Dan about how I watched this movie not too long ago and how I wouldn't really voluntarily choose to watch it again, really. But, as it turns out, it's part of the curriculum about social issues and racial tension in The South, which is couple with the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. So we watched the film in my 6th hour, and my feelings about its mediocrity were justified.
The movie is absolutely nothing special (as a matter of fact, its director didn't even get a Best Director nomination), though it is a nice movie. It's decently acted, tells a nice story, and tugs at the heartstrings here and there and everywhere, but God help me, I couldn't find a real conflict for the film. I mean, I get that Jessica Tandy is growing older and older, and I understand that Morgan Freeman can't read, but honestly none of the smaller conflict-ish plot points really gets fleshed out for the whole movie (other than aging, itself, and, honestly, you don't need a black chauffeur to stand by and watch a white woman age). And okay, there's the growing friendship between Tandy and Freeman, but that, too, is almost lost in everything else. This movie is, simply, a white woman being driven around by a black man and geography is the only real cause for their closeness. Kinda lame, don't you think?
Score: 5.5/10
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