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Every month Movie Night is held in the Fireside Room. This month Carriage Glen will be showing Driving Miss Daisy starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, and Big starring Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia. Driving Miss Daisy came out in 1989. It is about an elderly Jewish woman wanting to maintain her independence, but after crashing her car her son hires her to have an African-American chauffeur. Daisy and Hoke's relationship gets off to a rocky start, but they gradually form a close friendship over the years, You can enjoy this movie in the Fireside Room on Monday, February 1st at 7:00 p.m. The second movie that will be shown in February is Big. A Tom Hanks classic from 1988. After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin into a 30-year-old

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