The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Pearce

Written By:
John Cork

Actors:
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 (Girl at Oak Park)

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 to the black section of town to pick up her maid Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) and bring her to work. Outside of her own social circle, Miriam realizes for the first time just how privileged, sheltered and self-centered her life has been. What brings this fact home is the realization that Odessa has literally been raising two families: the Thompsons' and her own. Odessa has also sacrificed her own health and wellbeing to serve her employers without question or complaint. Awakened to the true inequities of "Separate But Equal", and impressed by Dr. King's edict of nonviolent resistance, Miriam joins the boycott. This stirs up the racist feelings harbored by Miriam's husband Norman (Dwight Schultz), who at the behest of his goonish brother Tunker (Dylan Baker) joins the Klanlike White Citizen's Council.

Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport becuase they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhaused, and gets to work late.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 September, 2011.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

A Place for Annie (1994) (DVD)

Welcome to L.A. (DVD)

Flight for Freedom (DVD)