Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, The Color Purple tells the coming-of-age story of a young African-American girl named Celie Harris and the brutal experiences she endured including …

Feb 7, 1986 · The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American …

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An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally …

The affirmation at the end of the film is so joyous that this is one of the few movies in a long time that inspires tears of happiness, and earns them. “The Color Purple” is the year’s best film.

A woman navigates life amid cruelty and hardship in the rural South before finding the strength to escape in Steven Spielberg's award-winning drama. Watch trailers & learn more.

Dec 18, 1985 · Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly-textured, moving film set in America's rural south that received an astounding 11 Oscar nominations, …

Follows the 40-year journey of self-actualization for a Black woman living a punishing life at the hands of brutal men in segregated rural Georgia.

Whoopi Goldberg, winner of the Best Actress Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination, makes a triumphant screen debut as the radiant, indomitable Celie, the story's central character.

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1][a] The novel has been the target of …