The Long Walk Home
| The Long Walk Home | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Pearce |
| Written by | John Cork |
| Produced by | Taylor Hackford Stuart Benjamin |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Sissy Spacek Dwight Schultz Ving Rhames Erika Alexander Richard Parnell Habersham |
| Narrated by | Mary Steenburgen |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Bill Yahraus |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Release dates | December 21, 1990 |
Running time | 97 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Box office | US$4,803,039 |
The Long Walk Home was a 1990 film released starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg.
The film is set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and features Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American maid, employed by a well-to-do white woman, Miriam Thompson, played by Spacek. The story is told through the eyes of Miriam's young daughter Mary Catherine, for whom Odessa is a nanny. Odessa and her family are faced with all of the social problems typical of African Americans at the time: poverty, racism, violence, and discrimination based solely on the color of their skin. When a boycott of the city buses prevents Odessa from riding the bus to work, she is left with no other choice but to walk. Her employer, Miriam Thompson, offers to give her a ride two days a week in order to ensure she makes it to work on time and alleviate the effect the “long walk home” is having on her. However, as the boycott progresses, tensions rise and giving Odessa a ride to work becomes an issue with the white prominent members of her community, as well as with her husband. Miriam is faced with the choice between doing what she believes is right or succumbing to pressure from her husband and friends. After a fight with her husband, Miriam decides to follow her heart and becomes involved in a carpool group for other workers like Odessa. In the film's emotional final scene, Miriam and Mary Catherine join Odessa and the other protesters in standing against oppression.
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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