TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Davis P The long walk home (1990) is one of the most powerful films I've ever seen. It is so incredibly meaningful, and reflects how hard times really were racially back in this time period. The performances in the movie is one of the ways this movie is able to be so effective. Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek are amazing here and why neither of them get nominated for academy awards or golden globes I'll never know. Spacek plays a white housewife in 1950s Montgomery Alabama who has an African American maid (Whoopi Goldberg) that she begins to drive to work during the bus boycott. She starts to become an ally for African American rights, much to the dismay of her racist husband and her even more racist brother in law. It has absolutely wonderful writing that really shows the true message and nature of the film. There is no moment throughout the entire runtime where the film is uninteresting, poorly put together, or weak in its message. I can't believe how very underrated this film is, and I think it's one that everyone needs to see at least once. 9/10 for The Long Walk Home (1990).

amtourtellotte Martin Luther King is infused into this movie, a voice over a microphone. The tensions between black and white are palpable. Yet two women, one black and one white find humanity in the chaos of tensions between the races. Two people living Martin Luther Kings dream of being color blind. The risks are many, the violence can escalate easily yet these women are strong in their convictions.I found the tension to be reminiscent of the actual time. I was born in the fifties and I was a few years younger than Mary Catherine, but I remember vividly the hatred directed at black people. I felt sadness, fear, confusion and empathy for the plight of black people. I thought this movie accurately portrayed the irrational hatred toward the black race.The acting was superb. I would highly recommend this movie.

Aldo Renato I first saw this movie in the early 1990s right after it came out on video. My then wife worked in a video store and brought new releases home for my second opinion. This movie is riveting...it is a classic docudrama (fiction mixed with fact) and, as I titled my commentary, "we are there." First there are two Oscar-winning actresses (Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg) and a versatile actor (Dwight Schultz of "The A-Team" proving there's life after that cult series). The gradual mixture of fact (Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, the boycott, etc.) mixed with fiction (the bonding between the two women, the way the wife stands up to the husband, etc.) makes this the quintessential docudrama...recommended (required?) viewing for anyone who went through that era!! In some ways it's not just the birth of the civil rights movement, it's the birth of Southern feminism (the daughter could have very well grown up to be any of the women on "Designing Women")!! Again, this movie packs a big wallop to anyone who views it...we, the audience are given a "fly on the wall" viewpoint...we are there!!!

amwcsu This is a very detailed description of the Black Experience living in the segregation-era South. I don't how people could tolerate such brutality and quasi-fascism like Whoopi Goldberg's character had done in the movie. Nothing is neither sugar-coated nor pious and romanticized for your viewing pleasure. In the Long Walk Home, you can feel the hell of the Black residents especially the maids and midwives right down to their aching feet. You can feel the anger and hurt and fear of Cotter's children when they were encountered and attacked by three racist youths in a city park. You sense the burning hatred of white community ready to counteract the issue of Civil Rights and the bus boycott during Christmas dinner where the senior Mrs. Thompson clearly spewed her bigoted opinion at the table and at the very end of film not only that you felt like you were one of the protesters there on the scene, being taunted and insulted. Spacek's character shows a glimmering sense of naiveté, intelligence, a sense of hope and influence that the resistance to segregation had on a growing number of whites at that time. However, it seems to me that she is the token white sympathizer that most of these films have, although necessary. It's sad to see only the younger Mrs. Thompson and her daughter the only non-racist white people in the entire movie who bothered to question the segregationists. Sometimes movies like these are too brutal for the senses. It makes you ashamed that you live in America. It could be a little too overpowering. Therefore, why couldn't the director add a little sour cream into this 7-alarm chili by adding a scene in which Mrs. Thompson is not the only non-racist by have other women and children explain why they do the racist taunts and bullying because they if they don't join in the bullying "festivities" then they'll become targets/victims just like Mrs. Thompson and the Cotters.The characters for the most part were very convincing three-dimensional people, not stereotypes, clichés, thrown into the mix to inform the audience: "You are in 1950's Alabama!" The dialog has a tendency to punch your face and grab hold while doing so, refusing to be politically correct and soothing. This movie makes shocks you, intrigues, and makes you angry at all almost every other white person in the film. And it will! Trust me! LWH has the power and the punch and accuracy that the rather corporate -sponsored high school history lesson with a Disney Channel heart "Ghosts of Mississippi" seemed to be lacking.