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The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the University of Southern California in 1988.
- December 21, 1990
- George Fenton
- US$4,803,039
Apr 12, 1991 · The Long Walk Home: Directed by Richard Pearce. With Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames. Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
- (4.6K)
- Drama, History
- Richard Pearce
- 1991-04-12
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Synopsis Odessa Carter (Whoopi Goldberg) needs to get to work as a nanny in the home of the affluent Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), but she refuses to take the bus. Odessa is participating in...
- (111)
- Richard Pearce
- PG
- Sissy Spacek
`The Long Walk Home" tells the stories of two women and their families at a critical turning point in American history. One of the women is black, a maid in an affluent neighborhood, a hard-working woman who goes home after a long day and does all of the same jobs all over again for her family.
Summaries. Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King. Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport because they were forced to sit at the back.
Dec 21, 1990 · "The Long Walk Home" begins telling the story of the American civil rights movement in as good a place as any: the kitchen of a comfortable Southern home. It is here, in a suburb of...
