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The Color Purple, 1985

Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Written by: Menno Meyjes

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 154 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.6

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The Color Purple can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around feminism, sexual abuse, and being down on your luck. The main genres are drama and period. In terms of style, The Color Purple stars a strong female character and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Color Purple takes place in the 1900s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed.

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Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia. The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her father's child. Ugly and unloved, separated from her children and her sister, Celie's only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover) who treats her little better than a slave. Her life changes forever when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shug (Margaret Avery), into the house. The Color Purple was also the film debut for Oprah Winfrey, who beautifully plays Celie's sister-in-law, Sofia. The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg, Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	16 December 1985
Runtime:	154 min

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Whoopi Goldberg

as Celie Johnson

Danny Glover

as Albert

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I only remember how I felt when I first watched this movie THE COLOR PURPLE. I remember that the movie made me cry in at least 3 different places. Whoopi Goldberg was spectacular, Oprah Winfrey was well, she was Oprah, and that's as good as it gets.... Read and rate it

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by: Netflowers
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An epic, sweeping yet still personal tale of a family in early the 1900s South, The Color Purple is full of struggle, pain, and unhappiness, as well as the search for love. Just love, no matter how it comes. The family's struggle (and specifically... Read and rate it

20.March.2009
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by: sethdellinger
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