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The Long Walk Home

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The Long Walk Home
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PG,1hr 35min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1989
Director:
Richard Pearce
Distributor:
Platinum Disc
Starring:
Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz  ...more
Synopsis: The Long Walk Home is a recreation of a troubled era in American history. The time is 1955; the place, Montgomery, Alabama. When Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, it is the first volley in the great Bus Boycott, organized by Dr. Martin Luther King in order to desegregate the Birmingham transportation system. The boycott is a decided inconvenience for Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), a well-to-do white woman. Now, Miriam must drive ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
There's a scene in The Long Walk Home in which the son of a long-suffering maid tries to intervene with a hate crime against his sister, and ends up absorbing the blows intended for her. Each time he gets on his feet again, his hands ball up into fists, before gradually relaxing to their prior condition of restraint. As viewers watch this powerful indictment of institutionalized racism in the South, ... Full Review
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Sissy Spacek
Miriam Thompson
Whoopi Goldberg
Odessa Cotter
Dwight Schultz
Norman Thompson
Ving Rhames
Herbert Cotter
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