The Long Walk Home (1990)

Odessa Carter (Whoopi Goldberg) needs to get to work as a nanny in the home of the affluent Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), but she refuses to take the bus. Odessa is participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, protesting against the inequality between blacks and whites, so Miriam decides to offer Odessa a ride to work every day. Though the community and Miriam’s husband (Dwight Schultz) insist she not get involved, the relationship between Miriam and Odessa has already changed for the better. The Cast Sissy Spacek as Miriam Thompson Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter Dwight Schultz as Norman Thompson Ving Rhames as Herbert Cotter Dylan Baker as Tunker Thompson Erika Alexander as Selma Cotter Lexi Randall as Mary Catherine (as Lexi Faith Randall) Richard Parnell Habersham as Theodore Cotter Jason Weaver as Franklin Cotter Crystal Robbins as Sara Thompson Cherene Snow as Claudia Chelcie Ross as Martin Dan Butler as Charlie Philip Sterling as Winston Schuyl