The Long Walk Home
- Sissy Spacek: Miriam Thompson
- Whoopi Goldberg: Odessa Cotter
- Dwight Schultz: Norman Thompson
- Ving Rhames: Herbert Cotter
- Dylan Baker: Tunker Thompson
- Erika Alexander: Selma Cotter
- Lexi Randall: Mary Catherine
- Richard Habersham: Theodore Cotter
- Jason Weaver: Franklin Cotter
- Crystal Robbins: Sara Thompson
- Cherene Snow: Claudia
- Chelcie Ross Martin
- Dan Butler: Charlie
- Philip Sterling: Winston
- Schuyler Fisk: Judy
- Nancy Moore Atchison: Anne
- Haynes Brooke: policeman
The Long Road ( The Long Walk Home) is an American film drama by Richard Pearce from the year 1990.
Action
The African American Odessa Cotter is an employee in the household of spouses Thompson. After Parks was arrested in Montgomery Rosa, Montgomery Bus Boycott it comes to. Miriam Thompson offers Cotter, that they would drive their employees using their own cars.
Thompson concealed this first aid before her husband Norman. As soon as he learns of the voluntary car service, Miriam tells him it would be one of her duties as a housewife. After the controversy she says Cotter first, she could not drive anymore, but later she does it again. You are logged even for driving service for others, even though they Cotter warns that this could Miriam brand socially. When Miriam and her husband announced that they would like to go into paid employment, there is another marriage dispute.
Norman Thompson attended the meeting of the Council White citizens ( White Citizens Council). This organization decides an action against the Boycottteilnehmer. Norman warns his wife, who stays in the group of African-Americans. The white racists want to drive African-Americans, they are insulted and threatened. Cotter sings a song that gradually the other Boycottteilnehmer - including Miriam Thompson - sing. They hold each other's hands and form a series. A racist by the other goes away.
At the end of the film, the voice-over of the daughter of Miriam Thompson says she understood how important it was for her mother to stand in a row along with the other people.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on 22 March 1991, the film show two women working at a turning point in American history. The manner in which the characters of these women would be shown with those individuality, is fascinating. The film was played " powerful " and " moving," of the two leading ladies well.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was " empathy and astute " and " theatrically convincing".
Awards
Lexi Randall was nominated in 1991 for the Young Artist Award. The film was nominated for the 1992 Political Film Society Award for Human Rights. Whoopi Goldberg won the 1993 Image Award.
Background
The film was in Alabama, including Montgomery, rotated. It had its world premiere on 11 September 1990 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film played in theaters in the USA a approximately 4.8 million U.S. dollars.