The Long Walk Home (1990) / Hosszú az út hazáig 

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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.

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.

Playtime: 97 Minutes

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Pearce
Writer: John Cork
Producers: Dave Bell, Edwin 'Itsi' Atkins, Hawk Koch, Stuart Benjamin, Taylor Hackford

1956-ban járunk, az amerikai "mélydél" egyik poros kisvárosában. Az alabamai Montgomery hirtelen az újságok címlapjára kerül. Példátlan szervezkedés indul a városban: az egyik első polgárjogi mozgalom - fehérek és feketék közösen - a helyi buszok bojkottjával szeretnék megszüntetni a faji elkülönítést. Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek - Eltűntnek nyilvánítva, JFK - A nyitott dosszié, A hálószobában) cselédje, a csendes és tiszteletreméltó fekete asszony, Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost, Apáca-show, Bíborszín) is csatlakozik a busz-bojkotthoz és gyalog teszi meg az utat a munkahelyére. Miriam felfigyel erre, és felajánlja alkalmazottjának, hogy hazaviszi a kocsijával. Az útközben folytatott beszélgetés eredményeképpen a két nő elhatározza, hogy akár életüket kockára téve is harcolni fog a feketék egyenjogúságáért. A közös élmények még inkább segítik őket egy tartós, mély barátság kialakításában és a kölcsönös, egymás iránt érzett tisztelet megerősítésében. A filmet a két Oscar-díjas színésznő, Sissy Spacek és Whoopi Goldberg alakítása teszi feledhetetlenné.

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 (as Lexi Faith Randall)
• Richard Parnell Habersham as Theodore Cotter
• Jason Weaver as Franklin Cotter
• Crystal Robbins as Sara Thompson
• Cherene Snow as Claudia
• Chelcie Ross as Martin
• Dan Butler as Charlie
• Philip Sterling as Winston
• Schuyler Fisk as Judy (Girl at Oak Park)
• Mary Steenburgen as Narrator

Plot

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.

Miriam Thompson offers to give her a ride two days a week to ensure she gets to work on time and to lessen the fatigue her "long walk home" is causing. Around the city, some informal carpools and other systems are starting, but most of the blacks walk to work.

As the boycott continues, tensions rise in the city. Blacks had been the majority riders on the city-owned buses, and the system is suffering financially. Miriam's decision to support Odessa by giving her a ride becomes an issue with her husband, Norman Thompson (Dwight Schultz), and other prominent members of the white community who want the boycott to end. Miriam has to choose between what she believes is right or succumb to pressure from her husband and friends.

After a fight with her husband, Miriam decides to follow her heart. She becomes involved in a carpool group to help other black workers like Odessa. In the film's final scene, Miriam and her daughter Mary Catherine (Lexi Randall), who is the narrator of the story in flashback, join Odessa and the other protesters in standing against oppression.