Movie
The Long Walk Home
Overview
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Details
- Release date
- 1990-12-21
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Dave Bell Associates, New Visions Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sissy Spacek as Miriam Thompson
- Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter
- Dwight Schultz as Norman Thompson
- Ving Rhames as Herbert Cotter
- Dylan Baker as Tunker Thompson
- Erika Alexander as Selma Cotter
- Lexi Randall as Mary Catherine
- Richard Habersham as Theodore Cotter
- Jason Weaver as Franklin Cotter
- Crystal Robbins as Sara Thompson
- Cherene Snow as Claudia
- Chelcie Ross as Martin
Crew
- Richard Pearce - Director
- John Cork - Writer
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