Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s
The Long Walk Home
Scored from 30 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Set in Montgomery, Alabama, during the 1955–56 bus boycott, Richard Pearce's historical drama follows Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg), a Black maid who refuses to ride the segregated city buses and instead walks nine miles each way to the white household that employs her. Her employer, Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), a country-club housewife who has never questioned her town's arrangements, quietly begins driving Odessa to work twice a week. As the boycott holds through the winter and white Montgomery organizes to break the carpools, Miriam's arrangement collides with her husband Norman's politics and her family's standing. The film is narrated in retrospect by Miriam's young daughter.
Released in 1990, The Long Walk Home is a drama and history film. It runs 1h 37m and carries a PG certificate. It was made in the United States.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 30 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Long Walk Home lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 30.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
