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.
Réalisateur | 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 |
À propos de The Long Walk Home
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.
Réalisation de The Long Walk Home
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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