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Mood:
- SincereTouchingUpliftingContemplativeThought ProvokingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Human SpiritFriendshipHopesLife is a BitchMind and SoulSocietyCouplesFriends more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- AlabamaBus
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Long Walk Home, 1990
English
USA
Profile of The Long Walk Home
The mood of The Long Walk Home is uplifting, sincere, and touching. The plot centers around the human spirit, power relations, and hopes. It is a drama, period, and historical movie. In approach, The Long Walk Home is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, on a bus. The Long Walk Home is set in Alabama. It happens in the 1950s. It is originally a true story.
Summary of The Long Walk Home
In the midst of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, dignified domestic worker Odessa Cotter does her part by walking the nine miles to her job at the home of civic-minded white socialite Miriam Thompson. When Miriam discovers Odessa's hardship, she volunteers rides, but her well-intentioned act earns her the wrath of the racist White Citizens' Council.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 December 1990 |
| Runtime: | 97 min |
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as Miriam Thompson
as Odessa Cotter
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