The Long Walk Home
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| The Long Walk Home | |
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| Directed by | Richard Pearce |
| Produced by | Taylor Hackford Stuart Benjamin |
| Written by | John Cork |
| Narrated by | Mary Steenburgen |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Sissy Spacek Dwight Schultz Ving Rhames Erika Alexander |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Editing by | Bill Yahraus |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 1989 |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | US$4,803,039 |
| IMDb profile | |
The Long Walk Home was a 1989 film released in worldwide in 1990 starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg.
The film was set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and featured Goldberg as a young African-American maid, employed by a young white woman, played by Spacek. When Goldberg's character decides to honor the bus boycott, opting to walk several miles to and from her employer's home, her employer decides to offer her a ride, thus thrusting both women into the politically charged situation. The film provides insight on the difficulty faced by black people during the boycott. Goldberg's daughter accepts a bus ride and is assaulted by white males. Spacek's husband in the show is lured into the anti-black movement by his brother. The movie is told through the eyes of Spacek's youngest daughter. Included in the film are many excerpts from MLK's Speeches.
One of the three GM "old-look" transit buses used in this film was the actual Montgomery Bus Lines bus #2857 that Rosa Parks was riding in when she was famously arrested. The bus was in poor conditioned and was given a partial repaint & was towed by a cable for its scenes in the movie.
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