The Color Purple
152 minutes,
USA (1985), 15
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(4.6 / 16 votes)
(4.6 / 16 votes)
Steven Spielberg takes on Alice Walker's controversial novel of African-American womanhood - with mixed results. Whoopi Goldberg stars
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The Color Purple: "It's about life. It's about love. It's about us," claimed the original tagline for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning story The Color Purple. As a summary of the film's all-inclusive remit, it perfectly captured the tear-jerking sentimentality underpinning this white male director's attempt to translate an African-American woman's story from page to screen...
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