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The Color Purple is not a tearjerker in the traditional sense. It doesn't cheat or manipulate, but provokes a reaction on the strength of its story. The characters come to mean so much that their eventual happiness is profoundly moving and poignant.

Although the combination of his sensibilities and Miss Walker's amounts to a colossal mismatch, Mr. Spielberg's Color Purple manages to have momentum, warmth and staying power all the same.

Spielberg turns The Color Purple into a four-hankie tearjerker that reaffirms the importance of love in such a tender, inoffensive way that it could have been directed by the late Walt Disney.

For this critic, The Color Purple now ranks with Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Spielberg's best.

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