The Long Walk Home

Drama, History

Erika Alexander	Selma Cotter
Dylan Baker	Tunker Thompson
Whoopi Goldberg	Odessa Cotter
Ving Rhames	Herbert Cotter
Dwight Schultz	Norman Thompson
Sissy Spacek	Miriam Thompson
Richard Habersham	Theodore Cotter
Lexi Randall	Mary Catherine
Crystal Robbins	Sara Thompson
Jason Weaver	Franklin Cotter

Director	Richard Pearce
Producer	George Fenton; Hawk Koch
Writer	John Cork

The Long Walk Home is the story of white woman Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek) and African-American woman Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) who must walk everywhere, as she is observing the historic bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in response to the Rosa Parks incident. With this in mind, Odessa who does house work for Miriam, is tiring at work and not doing her work properly. Miriam is extremely upset at Odessa’s performance and threatens to fire her if she doesn’t start taking the bus. Eventually, Odessa convinces her that the cause is worthwhile and both of them come to support the Civil Rights Movement.