Long Road Home (film)

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Long Road Home
Based onLong Road Home
by Ronald B. Taylor
Written by Jane-Howard Hammerstein
Directed by John Korty
Starring
Composer Craig Safan
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Norman Rosemont
Producer David A. Rosemont
Cinematography Kees Van Oostrum
EditorJim Oliver
Running time78 minutes
Production companies
  • Gideon Productions
  • Rosemont Productions
  • World International Network
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseFebruary 25, 1991 (1991-02-25)

Long Road Home is a 1991 American drama television film directed by John Korty, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Ronald B. Taylor. The film stars Mark Harmon, Lee Purcell, Morgan Weisser, Leon Russom, and Timothy Owen Waldrip. It revolves around a migrant farm worker who struggles to keep his family alive during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The film received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the performances of Purcell and Russom.

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Reception

Entertainment Weekly 's television critic Ken Tucker wrote that "director John Korty has made a limp, self-pitying little TV movie here, and the script by Jane-Howard Hammerstein is so full of vague grandiloquence that even some of the characters don't understand what's being said." [1] Wilborn Hampton of The New York Times described the film as "a fairy-tale view not only of the Great Depression, but of the labor movement it spawned and the way its victims survived." [2] Ray Loynd of the Los Angeles Times called it the "Best Production Based on a Novel" among 1991 drama television films which he saw. [3]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult
1991 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special Lee Purcell Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special Leon Russom Nominated
1992 44th Writers Guild of America Awards Best Adapted Long Form Jane-Howard HammersteinWon

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References

  1. Tucker, Ken (February 22, 1991). "Long Road Home". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  2. Hampton, Wilborn (February 25, 1991). "Review/Television; Destitution in the 1930's (No, It's Not "The Grapes")". The New York Times . Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  3. Loynd, Ray (December 27, 1991). "A Look at 1991's Best TV Movies Based on Real Events: Television: One critic's view of the gems, curiosities and stinkers that paraded across the tube in 1991". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 6, 2022.