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The Long Walk Home

Genre
Drama
Running Time
97 Minutes
Released
21 December, 1990
The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery bus boycott by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the University of Southern California in 1988.

Director Richard Pearce
Produced by Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin
Writer(s) John Cork
Starring Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Narrator Mary Steenburgen
Music George Fenton
Cinematography Roger Deakins
Edited by Bill Yahraus
Distributed by Miramax Films
Released December 21, 1990
Running time 97 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office US$4,803,039
Netflix ID 60025163

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Historical drama set in Alabama during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. It follows Odessa Carter, a black woman working as a nanny for a white family. One of the buses used in the film is bus #2857 on which Rosa Parks was arrested.

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Octavia Spencer worked as an intern on the film. She became friends with Whoopi Goldberg, who advised her to go to college before moving to Hollywood.

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Civil rights movement in popular culture - The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts.. Films directed by Richard Pearce.. Films set in Alabama.. Films about activists.

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