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The Color Purple
Running Time: 154 min.
MPAA Rating: PG13
Box Office: / $94,175,854
Produced By: / Amblin Entertainment / Guber-Peters Company / Warner Brothers
Release By: Warner Brothers

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... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Danny Glover (Albert) Whoopi Goldberg (Celie) Margaret Avery (Shug Avery) Oprah Winfrey (Sofia) All Cast & Crew >> 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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