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Long Walk Home
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301960137
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301960130
Label: Live / Artisan
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-03
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Editorial Review:
This underrated 1990 film directed by Richard Pearce (Country, Leap of Faith) features exceptionally nuanced performances by both Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter) and Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) in a story set against the backdrop of the emerging civil rights movement of the 1950s South. Spacek plays a Southern socialite who becomes gradually enlightened by the plight of her housekeeper, played by Whoopi Goldberg, as she struggles to raise her family amid the increasing turmoil, prejudice, and violence around her. A well-done treatment of an important period of American history, The Long Walk Home is an effective and accurate period drama. It is also an opportunity to see fine, understated performances by two very popular actresses in an earnest and socially conscious setting. --Robert Lane
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Worst DVD copy ever!
Really, Do not bother! A great film reproduced by a flim-flam DVD company. I was going to show this to my college students this evening. I don't even know if they could endure it. I certainly can't. Search for a used VHS copy. This hack job is terrible!
Rating:  - One of Spacek and Goldberg's best performances
Rosa Parks' refusal to ride in the 'Colored Section' of the bus wasn't the end of the protests. Afterward, the African American community boycotted public transportation.
Dessie (Goldberg) had a 9 mile walk to her employer, Miriam Thompson's (Spacek) home. The act of Thompson giving her maid a ride to continue the boycott causes quite a bit of stir among her conservative white family.
It's just before Christmas, Dessie's shoes barely fit and she cannot come home 'too ... Read More
Rating:  - A LONG WAYS FROM 'THE LONG WALK HOME'?
It's 1955 in Montgomery and the Rosa Parks incident has precipitated the bus strike by African-Americans against the City of Montgomery. The film BOYCOTT does an excellent job of telling the overall story of the strike and the people organizing it. THE LONG WALK HOME is the story of two people directly involved in the strike. No one thought it would go on for over a year. Most African-Americans relied on public transportation for getting to work and Odessa Cotter (Goldberg), who worked as a domestic ... Read More
Rating: - Dignity and grace
Great movie about the power of standing or in this case walking for what you believe in. The dynamics between men and women, women and women, employer and employee, families, etc. etc. Buy this movie.
Rating: - Good history lesson
This film is first of all a good movie with fine acting. I also use it in the classroom to show 8th graders what was the situation in the South at the time of the famous Montgomery bus strike for African Americans. In addition I use the film to reflect what was the role of white women during that era. It shows the rise of both groups of women to be powerful forces.
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