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Release Date: 1985

Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Carl Anderson, Leon Rippy, Laurence Fishburne, Leonard Jackson, Dana Ivey, Margaret Avery, Whoopi Goldberg, Rae Dawn Chong, Susan Beaubian, Desreta Jackson, Adolph Caesar ...MORE

Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Carl Anderson, Leon Rippy, Laurence Fishburne, Leonard Jackson, Dana Ivey, Margaret Avery, Whoopi Goldberg, Rae Dawn Chong, Susan Beaubian, Desreta Jackson, Adolph Caesar, Akosua Busia, Willard E. Pugh, Danny Glover ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Feminist Film, Marriage Drama, Drama Film, Film Adaptation, Lgbt, Period Piece

The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two... MORE

The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions. Taking place in the Southern United States during the early 1900s to mid-1930s, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman, Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg), whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is fourteen, she has already had two children by her father (Leonard Jackson). He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces Celie (Desreta Jackson) to marry a local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister" (Danny Glover), who treats her like a slave. Albert makes her clean up his disorderly household and take care of his unruly LESS