The Long Walk Home Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

IMDb

Released Date

December 21, 1990

Distributor

Miramax

Genre

Drama

Worldwide Gross

Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$4,873,620 + $0 = $4,873,620

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Jason Weaver, Ving Rhames, Dwight Schultz, Erika Alexander, Dylan Baker, Dan Butler, Chelcie Ross

Whoopi Goldberg

as Odessa Cotter

Sissy Spacek

as Miriam Thompson

Jason Weaver

as Franklin Cotter

Ving Rhames

as Norman Thompson

Dwight Schultz

as Norman Thompson

Erika Alexander

as Selma Cotter

Dylan Baker

as Tunker Thompson

Dan Butler

as Charlie

Chelcie Ross

as Martin

About The Long Walk Home

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.

About

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.

Trivia

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.