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The Color Purple
on DVD (1985)
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| 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: |
148 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, English |
| Released: |
21/07/2003
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Brief synopsis of 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.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
On this film's release, it was fashionable to castigate director Steven Spielberg for his somewhat glossy, sugar-coated version of Alice Walker's celebrated and hard-hitting Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a young black woman's struggle for self and racial identity. Yet this is actually an impressive, dignified attempt to turn a radical and often difficult novel into mainstream entertainment with a message, which is a ticklish task at the best of times, but one to be tackled devoutly. Whoopi Goldberg is wonderful in the lead, Danny Glover and Margaret Avery are sublime, and watch out for a pre-TV-fame Oprah Winfrey playing very out of character.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Well-intentioned and gracious but not always dramatically cohesive generation saga from a director trying to prove he has depth.
Time Out
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