The Long Walk
2025 · Movie · R · 108 min · ★ 6.9 · 80% critics
In a bleak alternate America, a group of teenage boys enters a harsh annual walking contest where slowing down has deadly consequences. As exhaustion, fear, and pressure mount, the march becomes a brutal test of endurance, purpose, and survival.
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Details
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-09-10
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 80/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (1,545 votes)
- Budget
- $20,000,000
About
You may like this if you want a bleak, dialogue-driven dystopian thriller with emotional pressure; Not for you if graphic violence, repetition, or limited world explanation frustrate you.
Pros: intense premise; strong performances; emotional tension | Cons: repetitive structure; thin worldbuilding; graphic brutality
Themes
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- male friendship
- bullying
- coming of age
- survival
- teenage boy
- survival horror
- hard
- authoritarian regime
- psychological horror
- suspenseful
- +9 more
Cast & crew
Cooper Hoffman
as Raymond Garraty #47
David Jonsson
as Peter McVries #23
Ben Wang
as Hank Olson #46
Tut Nyuot
as Arthur Baker #6
Charlie Plummer
as Gary Barkovitch #5
Garrett Wareing
as Stebbins #38
Jordan Gonzalez
as Richard Harkness #49
Joshua Odjick
as Collie Parker #48
Mark Hamill
as The Major
Roman Griffin Davis
as Curly #7
Directed by Francis Lawrence