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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Period Film, Marriage Drama, Feminist Film, Rural Drama, Drama
Box Office: / $94,175,854
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Summary:
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 (... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Danny Glover - (Albert)
Whoopi Goldberg - (Celie)
Margaret Avery - (Shug Avery)
Oprah Winfrey - (Sofia)
Willard E. Pugh - (Harpo)
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Review:
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. Th ... Continue >>

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