The Long Walk Home
| The Long Walk Home | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Directed by | Richard Pearce |
| Produced by |
Taylor Hackford Stuart Benjamin |
| Written by | John Cork |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Mary Steenburgen |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Bill Yahraus |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | US$4,803,039 |
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 (1955-1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the University of Southern California in 1988.
The feature film is based on a short screenplay and film of the same name, written by John Cork, then a graduate student in directing at USC. He had submitted his script to the Cinema Department for consideration, hoping also to direct it. While USC selected Cork's script for production, the department assigned Beverlyn E. Fray, another student, to direct it.
The short film won several awards, including first place at the Black American Cinema Society. Cork, however, was unhappy with the finished project and unsuccessfully tried to block screenings of the short film.
The film was expanded as a feature.
Set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, it features Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American woman who works as a maid/nanny for Miriam Thompson, a well-to-do white woman played by Sissy Spacek. Odessa and her family confront typical issues faced by African Americans in the South at the time: poverty, racism, segregation, and violence. The black community has begun a widespread boycott of the city-owned buses to end segregation; Odessa takes on a long walk both ways to work.
...
Wikipedia