The Color Purple PG-13

The Color Purple
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 15, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 180,794
The movie filled me with disbelief and disappointment. Full Review
Sojourner
Aug 22, 2019
...Remarkably faithful in incident and detail to Alice Walker's original...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 1985
Rating: 4/5 -- A far better film than is usually thought.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Jun 23, 2003
Rating: 3/5 -- Overrated, but still a good film.
Juicy Cerebellum
Jul 14, 2005
Spielberg's strategy was to broaden Walker's cunning simplifications, and in blowing up her plot, Spielberg not only makes its flaws more visible, he also uncovers, beneath the feminist rhetoric, the melodrama at its heart. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Mar 2, 2018
4 stars out of 5 -- [F]ull of riveting set-pieces, bravura filmmaking and great performances from Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Empire
Mar 1, 2011
...An intimate story of suffering, endurance and triumph....Distinctive and deeply moving...
Los Angeles Times
Dec 18, 1985

Product Description:

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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  • Sales Rank: 6,396
  • UPC: 085391163107
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