Is Driving Miss Daisy actually good?

Driving Miss Daisy sits in the 78.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.3% of them.

How does Driving Miss Daisy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Driving Miss Daisy lands in the 75.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Driving Miss Daisy's score based on?

193 calibrated reviewers stand behind Driving Miss Daisy's score.

1989

global pct

78.3

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Driving Miss Daisy

Name: Driving Miss Daisy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1989

Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

78.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

75.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

193 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1948 Atlanta, a wealthy elderly Jewish widow reluctantly accepts a Black chauffeur hired by her son after she can no longer drive safely. Over the following 25 years, the prickly Miss Daisy and her patient driver Hoke develop a deep, unlikely friendship against the backdrop of the changing American South and the civil rights movement.

Released in 1989, Driving Miss Daisy is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,562 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 193 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 196 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Driving Miss Daisy (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 193
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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