Long Road Home (film)
Long Road Home is a 1991 American drama television film directed by John Korty. It is based on the 1988 novel Long Road Home by Ronald B. Taylor. The cast includes Mark Harmon, Lee Purcell, Morgan Weisser, Leon Russom, and Timothy Owen Waldrip. The story follows a migrant farm worker trying to keep his family alive during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The film was produced by Gideon Productions and Rosemont Productions for World International Network and aired on NBC on February 25, 1991. It runs 78 minutes. Executive producer was Norman Rosemont and producer was David A. Rosemont. Cinematography was by Kees Van Oostrum and editing by Jim Oliver.
Purcell and Russom received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for their performances.
Reception was mixed: Entertainment Weekly called it a limp, self-pitying TV movie with vague grandiloquence in the script. The New York Times described it as a fairy-tale view of the Great Depression and the labor movement. The Los Angeles Times named it the best production based on a novel among 1991 drama television films they saw.
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