The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home

Infobox Film
name = The Long Walk Home


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director = Richard Pearce
producer = Taylor Hackford
Stuart Benjamin
writer = John Cork
narrator = Mary Steenburgen
starring = Whoopi Goldberg
Sissy Spacek
Dwight Schultz
Ving Rhames
Erika Alexander
music = George Fenton
cinematography = Roger Deakins
editing = Bill Yahraus
distributor = Miramax Films
released = December 21, 1989
runtime = 97 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross = US$4,803,039
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imdb_id = 0100046

"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 condition by the time the film was made. It was given a partial repaint and was towed by a cable for its scenes in the movie.


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