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The Long Walk Home

1991, Movie, PG, 97 mins

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Take a long walk. A modestly effective period piece, THE LONG WALK HOME takes as its setting the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56, in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully led a prolonged campaign to desegregate the city's public transportation system. The event's racial conflicts are dramatized through the experiences of two families. The Thompsons, Miriam (Spacek) and Norman (Schultz), are well-to-do whites whose country-club lives consist of golf, real... read more leave a comment
During a bus boycott in 1950's Alabama, a well-to-do businessman clashes with his wife's desire to help their black maid support the strike. Outstanding performances!
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Length: 01:40
Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 1991
Rated PG

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Cast
Sissy Spacek: Miriam Thompson
Whoopi Goldberg: Odessa Cotter
Dwight Schultz: Norman Thompson
Ving Rhames: Herbert Cotter
Dylan Baker: Tunker Thompson
Erika Alexander: Selma Cotter

 

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