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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 ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1985 | Running Time: 154 minutes
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Steven Spielberg's first cinematic attempt to delve deeper than escapism produced a rich, heartfelt epic that matched the Pulitzer Prize-winning credentials of Alice Walker's novel, receiving 11 Oscar nominations but famously winning none of them. The Color Purple is a triumph of all elements of production design, nominated for its screenplay, cinematography, makeup, costumes, art direction, score, and three of its actresses -- though not for director Spielberg. The snub may have helped push him ...more
- Danny Glover - Albert
- Whoopi Goldberg - Celie
- Margaret Avery - Shug Avery
- Oprah Winfrey - Sofia
- Willard E. Pugh - Harpo
- Susan Beaubian - Corrine
- Drew Bundi Brown - Jook Joint Patron
- Bennet Guillory - Grady
- Hawthorne James - Jook Joint Patron
- Leonard Jackson - Pa
- Peto Kinsaka - Adam
- Carl Anderson - Reverend Samuel
- James Tillis - Buster
- Phillip Strong - Mayor
- Steven Spielberg - Director
- Steven Spielberg - Producer
- Jon Peters - Producer
- Frank Marshall - Producer
- Kathleen Kennedy - Producer
- Quincy Jones - Producer
- Peter Guber - Producer
- Menno Meyjes - Screenwriter
- Alice Walker - Book Author
- Carole Isenberg - Associate Producer
- Jo Ann Doster - Casting
- Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer
- Michael Kahn - Editor
- Chris Boardman - Composer (Music Score)
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