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- 1990
- PG
- Miramax
- 1 h 37 m
- 1990
- PG
- Miramax
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Directed By: Richard Pearce
Written By: John Cork
- 1990
- PG
- Miramax
- 1 h 37 m
- 1990
- PG
- Miramax
- 1 h 37 m
The Long Walk Home
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Summary Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Directed By: Richard Pearce
Written By: John Cork
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
73
77% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
23% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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One of those rare movie history lessons that don't make you feel as if you're facing the chalkboard. It's an impassioned movie, with vehement, soulful performances from Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek, but it's also a work of great restraint and proportion.
A powerful and affecting film, so well played by Goldberg and Spacek that we understand not just the politics of the time but the emotions as well.
The Long Walk Home sounds as if it's going to be one of those primers in contemporary social history with made-for-TV written all over it. This is much, much better - even worthy of the big screen. [21 Dec 1990, p.5D]
An effectively mounted drama about the human impact of changing times on two families, with sturdy performances by Sissy Spacek as an uppercrust white housewife and Whoopi Goldberg as her maid.
A respectably stirring film about the rupturing birth of civil rights in the South. Although most of Walk Home heads down this ready-for-prime-time moral path, director Richard Pearce and screenwriter John Cork uncover some interesting dramatic grays along the way.
Well-acted, likably small-scale, full of good intentions, but hardly a corker.
A blob of good intentions. Good intentions do not a good movie make.
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Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
Political Film Society, USA
• 1 Nomination
