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1985

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Starring	Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Leonard Jackson
Director	Steven Spielberg
Genres	Drama

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The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg (GHOST, SISTER ACT), 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 - LETHAL WEAPON, BOPHA) 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.

Starring	Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Leonard Jackson, Akosua Busia, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong
Director	Steven Spielberg
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 28 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 28 mins
Certificate
Collections	Multi-coloured Movie Collection
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, English Blu-ray: English
Released	Production year: 1985 To Rent: DVD: 21 Jul 2003 Blu-ray: 31 Jan 2011

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- Well-intentioned and gracious but not always dramatically cohesive generation saga from a director trying to prove he has depth.
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  A strong adaptation...
  
  This film, based on Alice Walker's award-winning epistolary novel of the same name, is a very strong adaptation of the book. Performances by the entire cast... read more »
  
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  Beautiful Acting
  
  An excellent film with superb acting. Whoopi Goldberg has exceptional depth as I have only seen her in light hearted, more 'surface' roles.
  
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  Purple Haze (I think not)
  
  Didn't do that much for me. It's well acted and beautifully crafted but it does drag a bit. It's worth a watch as it does different things for ... read more »
  
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  Beautiful movie
  
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  Very touching story. Amazing cast. Definitly would recomend, the only think i struggled with was a very hard going beginning. Nevertless worth watching every ... read more »
  
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Winfrey teaming with Bullock and Streep for new movie
- 24 Oct 2010
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is set to return to the big screen with two Oscar-winners after signing up to star in a new movie with Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep. The TV host, who was herself nominated for an Academy Award for her role in 1985's The Color Purple, will appear in a currently-untitled new comedy created by Sex and The City writer Michael Patrick King. Winfrey, Bullock and Meryl Streep will star in the film set around a home-shopping TV channel, following the three ladies who "make Read more
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  Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her ...

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  Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg (GHOST, SISTER ACT), 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, ...