| Director: | John Korty |
| Composer: | Craig Safan |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Norman Rosemont |
| Producer: | David A. Rosemont |
| Cinematography: | Kees Van Oostrum |
| Editor: | Jim Oliver |
| Runtime: | 78 minutes |
| Network: | NBC |
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.
Entertainment Weekly 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]
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Lee Purcell | |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Leon Russom | |||
| 1992 | 44th Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Adapted Long Form | Jane-Howard Hammerstein | |