The Long Walk Home
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Movie Reviews of The Long Walk Home
Movie Review: Worst DVD copy ever!
Summary: 2 Stars
Really, Do not bother! A great film reproduced by a flim-flam DVD company. I was going to show this to my college students this evening. I don't even know if they could endure it. I certainly can't. Search for a used VHS copy. This hack job is terrible!Movie Review: One of Spacek and Goldberg's best performances
Summary: 5 Stars
Rosa Parks' refusal to ride in the 'Colored Section' of the bus wasn't the end of the protests. Afterward, the African American community boycotted public transportation.
Dessie (Goldberg) had a 9 mile walk to her employer, Miriam Thompson's (Spacek) home. The act of Thompson giving her maid a ride to continue the boycott causes quite a bit of stir among her conservative white family.
It's just before Christmas, Dessie's shoes barely fit and she cannot come home 'too tired to do the cooking and too late to do the cleaning.' Many African Americans are afraid to lose their jobs.
Meanwhile, the whites are afraid "If they get by with that bus thing, we won't be able to have this Christmas dinner. The maid will be sitting right next to us..."
As Dessie says, "I'll walk til I don't have no legs left if it will give my kids a better shot in this world."
This is one of the most poignant performances on the part of both Spacek and Goldberg I have ever seen. "Long Walk Home" is very underrated.
Most of us are too young to remember segregated schools, buses, and even public parks. We have come a long way, as this film illustrates. And not far enough. Discrimination is an ugly and painful word and it's one I hope we can put an end to.
Rebecca Kyle, October 2008
Movie Review: A LONG WAYS FROM 'THE LONG WALK HOME'?
Summary: 4 Stars
It's 1955 in Montgomery and the Rosa Parks incident has precipitated the bus strike by African-Americans against the City of Montgomery. The film BOYCOTT does an excellent job of telling the overall story of the strike and the people organizing it. THE LONG WALK HOME is the story of two people directly involved in the strike. No one thought it would go on for over a year. Most African-Americans relied on public transportation for getting to work and Odessa Cotter (Goldberg), who worked as a domestic in the home of Miriam Thompson (Spacek), paid her fare in the front of the bus and got off to enter and sit in the back of the bus to ride the 9 miles each way to the Thompson home. The Thompsons were upper middle class socialites whose lives centered around the Country Club, entertaining, and Norman Thompson's successful real estate development business. Miriam, without telling her very segregationist husband, initially picks up Dessa a couple times a week, more for her own benefit than Dessa's but as the strike wears on and it becomes more and more contentious, Miriam begins to understand the pain of the African-Americans and puts her marriage and physical safety on the line by getting involved in driving Dessa back and forth as well as driving for the car pool. Goldberg does a great job of restraining her usual overpowering personality in this film so that you really feel the pain of walking 9 miles each way only to come home and do all over what you've been doing at work all day. Even if you know the story of the boycott this is worth watching to better understand how it played out at the individual level for both whites and blacks. Another reminder of a very sad chapter in American history. Let us all pray that we never treat people as 'possessions' again and that we work to rid our world of racial discrimination wherever we find it. WWW.LUSREVIEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM. Movie Review: Dignity and grace
Summary: 4 Stars
Great movie about the power of standing or in this case walking for what you believe in. The dynamics between men and women, women and women, employer and employee, families, etc. etc. Buy this movie.Movie Review: Good history lesson
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is first of all a good movie with fine acting. I also use it in the classroom to show 8th graders what was the situation in the South at the time of the famous Montgomery bus strike for African Americans. In addition I use the film to reflect what was the role of white women during that era. It shows the rise of both groups of women to be powerful forces.