‘The Long Road Home’ Explores Cash Family’s Generational Drug Addiction (movie review)

I had the extraordinary privilege last weekend of attending an early screening of a new 55-minute documentary entitled “The Long Road Home: The Cash Family’s Untold Story.” The documentary, which was produced by Oxvision Media (and Cindy Cash), working with the Cash family, tells the tragic story of how drug addiction has ravaged generations of the Cash family.

At the screening, Mark Cash (Johnny Cash’s nephew and the son of Tommy Cash who had his own country hits), explained, “Addiction runs through my family like a fire.” The documentary tells the story of the Cash family’s multi-generational struggle with drug and alcohol addiction.

Mark declared, “If this documentary can help one person see there is light at the end of the tunnel, then we’ve done our job. There is hope.”

“The Long Road Home” was screened at the “Storytellers Museum,” located adjacent to Johnny Cash’s former farm retreat in Bon Aqua, a suburb of Nashville.

Nine members of the Cash family appear in the film, including Johnny Cash’s daughter Cindy. The Cash family members are admirably open and frank about how various addictions have devastated their lives.  In fact, the film is dedicated to Mark’s sister, Paula, who died from cirrhosis of the liver ten days after the film was completed.

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  • Richard D. Land

    Dr. Richard Land, BA (Princeton, magna cum laude); D.Phil. (Oxford); Th.M (New Orleans Seminary). Dr. Land served as President of Southern Evangelical Seminary from July 2013 until July 2021. Upon his retirement, he was honored as President Emeritus and he continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of Theology & Ethics. Dr. Land previously served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (1988-2013) where he was also honored as President Emeritus upon his retirement. Dr. Land has also served as an Executive Editor and columnist for The Christian Post since 2011. Dr. Land explores many timely and critical topics in his daily radio feature, “Bringing Every Thought Captive,” and in his weekly column for CP.

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