The Long Walk
The Long Walk

The Long Walk

2025Movie108 minEnglish

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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Director: UnknownGenres: Drama, Thriller

Plot Summary

A group of teenagers participates in a grueling annual walking competition where the stakes are survival. Each day, the slowest walker is shot. The novel explores themes of endurance, sacrifice, and the loss of innocence under extreme duress.

Critical Reception

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Fun Fact

The novel 'The Long Walk' was written by Richard Bachman, a pseudonym for Stephen King, and was first published in 1979. It is part of The Bachman Books collection.

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5 reviews
ergenekon

ergenekon

Has "the hunger games" vibe with less detail on world fiction, and does not intend to explain it neither. A 6/10 movie with good sub-message.
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

Initially, I though this had something of the “Hunger Games” to it, as a group of fifty young men assemble at a military roadblock. It appears they have each won a lottery and a prize of untold riches awaits the winner of a walking competit...
MovieGuys

MovieGuys

Take a road, a few military props and a small group of young actors and you have the essentials of "The Long Walk". This is story is, in essence, a condensed metaphor, for walking the passage of life, its hopes, its dreams, nightmares an...
user1638

user1638

This review contains spoilers. As you can probably tell, this isn't a "good movie 10/10" type review and I honestly don't know how to write a good one without spoiling things. I believe these spoilers are necessary to understand just ho...
Brent Marchant

Brent Marchant

Director Francis Lawrence’s screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel by the same name is one of those pictures that makes me want to stand up in the theater and exclaim that the Emperor is indeed naked (though I’d probably be quickly escor...