The Color Purple overview
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Synopsis:
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 innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing Celie to assume that Nettie is dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Studio: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Guber-Peters Company
- Year: 1985
- Run Time: 154 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG13
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Color
