The Long Walk Home Page #2

Synopsis: Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport becuase they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhaused, and gets to work late.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Richard Pearce
Production: Miramax
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
PG
Year:
1990
97 min
306 Views


I'll read it to you.

"This is for...

Monday the"...

Boy, you can't read. We're gonna

die of consumption waitin' for you.

- Can so! Give it back! - Franklin, give

him the paper and let him read it.

Watch it.

"Another Negro woman has

been arrested and thrown in jail

because she refused to get up

out of her seat on the bus...

for a white person

to sit down.

It is the second time

since the Colvin case...

that a Negro woman has been

arrested for the same thing.

This has to be stopped. "

"We're therefore asking

every Negro...

to stay off the buses Monday

in protest of the arrest and trial.

Don't ride the buses to work,

to town, to school...

or anywhere on Monday.

You can afford to stay

out of school for one day,

if you have no other

way to go except by bus.

You can also afford to stay

out of town for one day.

If you work,

take a cab or walk.

- Please, children"...

- I heard about that last night.

- That woman was Miss Parks.

- Rosa Parks?

Yep. They had to bail her out

of jail for sittin' in the bus.

- See, the problem is...

- I'll tell you what the problem is.

I ain't never seen people get so

worked up over a piece of paper.

- I think it's dumb.

- I think you're dumb!

- Shut up, Franklin.

- I bet nobody rides the bus.

- Franklin, sit up.

- Well, if that don't get all.

Here we are without a car,

and somebody tellin' us not to ride the bus?

Theodore and Franklin ready

to follow along like lap dogs.

If that ain't cuttin' your

nose off to spite your face.

She's mad 'cause she ride the bus

out to Newtown on Saturday,

- to see that boy she think like her.

- Shut up.

I'm tired of hangin' my head

in the shadow of crackers.

I wanna ride at the

front of the bus.

Lord, we thank you for this

food we're about to receive.

Watch over our

souls tonight...

and help us live your

word tomorrow.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Right around the fence.

That bus is as empty

as my grave.

It starts to rain,

people get on that bus.

No, they won't,

not unless they stupid as you are.

Mama! If we can't ride the bus,

then do we have to go to school?

Boy, you ain't never

took the bus in your life.

Now get in there and help

me clean off that table.

Hello, Mrs. Thompson?

This is Odessa.

Mrs. Thompson, I think I'm gonna

be awfully late to work today.

Odessa, this is Monday. You know

how badly I need you on Monday.

Yes, I know, Mrs. Thompson,

but, as I said, I...

Well, this wouldn't have anything to do

with the boycott business, would it?

Well, Mrs. Thompson, the buses usually

come past my house pretty near full,

but today there ain't a soul

on 'em except the driver,

and this last one had

a police car following it,

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