Recently the film "Driving Miss Daisy" entered the rotation on cable TV. I caught large parts of it again, and find it still to be a real champ.
Through the miracle of Wikipedia, I'm almost effortlessly informed that DMD won the Oscar for best picture some 20 years ago, and Jessica Tandy won for best actress. Morgan Freeman was nominated for best actor but did not win.
Wonderful as Tandy and Freeman are in this movie, I have to say that I always think of Martin Luther King as its top star. A recording of his voice is heard at a key part of the narrative (with the premise that he's the speaker at a dinner Miss D is attending). MLK's image is not shown. The message he delivers, with unmatched eloquence, is that the real tragedy of the South during the civil rights struggle was that of the many good people who stood by and did nothing. It is an evergreen message, applicable to all times, and hits home with me still. I struggle to find ways not just to stand by.
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