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Release Date: 17 December, 2002 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
The Long Walk Home Reviews
THOUGHT PROVOKING DRAMA
Earnest film chronicling the bus boycott in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. Oscar winners Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg star as a well to do Southern socialite and her quite, but courageous maid. When Whoopi joins in the boycott against riding the buses, she finds herself walking to her job for Spacek three days a week with Sissy secretly "carrying" her the other two days. Sissy doesn't want her bigoted and politically motivated husband and his brother (Dwight Schultz and Dylan Baker, both very good) to find out. The movie is more an indictment against the racial prejudice of its times rather than a purely biographical flick, but director Richard Pearce wisely keeps the focus on his two leads who deliver outstandingly understated performances. A good movie to remind us of the ugly scar of racism that fomented our country for so long.
A Touching story
The Long walk home was a very touching story about the discrimination against African Americans in 1955, as well as the Bus boycott which took place. This movie is an excellent depiction of the time period. While there is some harsh language, violence, and racial slurs, these three things really help to depict what the feelings towards the African Americans really were. This movie even shows how a person could be moved when they find out the situation of another person.
Another thing that was enjoyable about the movie was there was the absence of two prominent figures of the equality movement, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. This movie really helped to show the situation of the normal person, who had to go to work and church as well as take care of their family.
"The Long Walk Home" was a very good movie and was really moving. I would suggest it to everyone, especially because it shows what some people had to go through for their freedom.
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