The Color Purple

Name: The Color Purple
Released: 1985-12-18
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong

The Color Purple

PG-13
2h 36m
1985

77%

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Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. From 1909 to 1949, Celie (Goldberg--Ghosts of Mississippi), a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Producer:

Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones, Jon Peters, Peter Guber

Writer:

Menno Meyjes

Cast:

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Willard Pugh

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

77%

Critics Consensus: It might have been better served by a filmmaker with a deeper connection to the source material, but The Color Purple remains a worthy, well-acted adaptation of Alice Walker's classic novel.

Reviews

Cinema Sight

Wesley Lovell

The Color Purple is arguably one of Spielberg’s best films. It ranks below only “Schindler’s List” and still leaves a lasting impression.

The Color Purple is melodramatic high art.

October 3, 2022

FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Peter Rainer

Every scene is slicked up to be a stunner, no stop is left unpulled, no camera move is left untracked. What’s missing is a deep, resounding reason to have made this film for its own sweet self.

August 9, 2022

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Gay Community News (Boston)

Angela Bowen

I didn't really expect to see "my" movie made. And I was right.

Spielberg's first entry into cultural history is just as shocking as it is a beautiful story about self empowerment. [Full review in Spanish].

October 21, 2019

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