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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.
Dec 15, 2023 · On Dec. 16, 1985, Warner Bros. unveiled Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of The Color Purple at its premiere in New York. The film went on to garner 11 Oscar nominations, including for best picture ...
Synopsis. Epic drama of an African-American woman's struggle to overcome poverty, adversity, and a marriage to brutal husband and eventually find her dignity in a period that spans over forty years from the turn-of-the-century. A young African-American woman fights for independence during the early years of the 20th century.
The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama movie directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth movie as a director, and marked a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.
Courtesy of Warner Bros. There are some great scenes and great performances in “The Color Purple ,” but it is not a great film. Steven Spielberg’s turn at “serious” filmmaking is marred ...
Composed by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Jeremy Lubbock. Makidada. Music by Quincy Jones. Lyrics by Quincy Jones, Menno Meyjes and Rod Temperton. I Ain't Gonna Sing No Mo. Written by Quincy Jones and Sonny Terry (as Saunders Sonny Terry) Junk Bucket Blues. Written by Porter Grainger. Performed by Get Happy Band.
PG-13 2 hr 34 min Dec 16th, 1985 History, Drama. An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry ...
