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The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize –winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer ...
Feb 7, 1986 · The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey. A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
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- Drama
- Steven Spielberg
- 1986-02-07
Celie is a black woman who grows up in the rural South in the early decades of this century, in a world that surrounds her with cruelty. When we first see her, she is a child, running through fields of purple flowers with her sister.
In the summer 1922, Albert, Harpo, and their musician friend, Swain (Laurence Fishburne), build a makeshift, lakeside saloon called "Harpo's" for Shug to reestablish her singing career. There, crowds defy Prohibition to indulge in alcohol and Shug's seductive spectacles.
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and...
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- Drama
- PG-13
A woman navigates life amid cruelty and hardship in the rural South before finding the strength to escape in Steven Spielberg's award-winning drama. Watch trailers & learn more.
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Mar 28, 2004 · The biggest local crop seems to be fields of purple flowers. Mister has a son, Harpo (Willard Pugh), by his first marriage, and one day the misery is shaken up when Harpo brings home Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), the woman he loves, who is unapologetically great with child.
