The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home

7.6

Dec 21 1990

2h 37m

Drama, History

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.

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Miriam Thompson

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Odessa Cotter

Dwight Schultz

Dwight Schultz

Norman Thompson

Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames

Herbert Cotter

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