This movie would have been better if it wasn't so racist.

It's overly heart-warming and filled with those obvious moments where you know you should be shedding tears or going 'aww!'. Still, it's not bad, it's very watchable and Morgan Freeman does a great job.

A safe, phony feel-good film about race relations. Covers the period from the late forties through the civil rights era of the sixties, but the hatred, tensions, and struggles of those times might as well be happening on another planet. Manipulative box office smash wastes excellent performances by Tandy and Freeman.

one of the few movies i watched again

Uhry's stage play is brought to stunning, emotionally satisfying life by Beresford and his superb cast. Aykroyd is remarkably effective as Daisy's doting son.

Obviously a play, so it doesn't move like a movie should. Be Freeman and Tandy are very good, so this is worth a look.

Morgan Freeman is magnific, spectacular and Jessica Tandy is so great. Two great perfomances, a good directing work and a simple and honest screenplay make this an excellente movie about friendship.

One of the Oscars biggest failures. It's one of these bullshit feel good movies that is so overt and obvious it will cause most sane people to roll their eyes numerous times. It becomes so terrified of offending anyone that it ends up saying nothing and accomplishing nothing. Therefore, it's a waste of time. And for the Jessica Tandy lovers - she was an old person PLAYING an old person. Get over it, it's not that impressive. At least Freeman can make anything watchable and saves this turd

A movie of a very simple story, but totally engaging, with excellent performances in beautiful moments and intense drama. Morgan Freeman's acting is so nice. Dan Aykroyd and Jessica Tandy, great here too.

Jessica Tandy is absolutely wonderful and Morgan Freeman gives a performance of a lifetime

VERY hokey but it's a charming little story. The two lead actors worked very well together.

The summary makes this movie sound boring. It isn't. I saw this movie when it was new, when I was supposed to have been too young to appreciate it; I liked it anyway. A small, unpretentious, thoroughly pleasant movie in which Freeman and Tandy perform with aplomb