The Color Purple (1985)

Product Details: The Color Purple (1985)

Edition:

DVD . See other editions

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Release Date:

05/15/2007

UPC:

085391163107

Directed by:

Steven Spielberg

Featuring:

Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery. See all cast

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Synopsis: The Color Purple (1985)

Synopis: Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia. The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her father's child. Ugly and unloved, separated from her children and her sister, Celie's only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover) who treats her little better than a slave. Her life changes forever when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shug (Margaret Avery), into the house. THE COLOR PURPLE was also the film debut for Oprah Winfrey, who beautifully plays Celie's sister-in-law, Sofia. THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg, Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.

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1. best film ever!!!

   , August 11, 2003
   Reviewer: tori2amos - See all tori2amos's reviews

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   1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Color Purple review helpful The color purple is my favourite film of all time because it says it all!!! The most important issues of life are depicted here! I've seen it thousands of times and I still cry watching it! The Academy hypocrisy kept it from winning the 11 awards it SHOULD have won, but unfortunately i's the way it works!!! Brilliant moving performances, amazing adaption from Alice Walker's masterpiece, heart breaking, joyfull,and majestic soundtrack and an incredible photography!!!! So for me it's quite transparent that this is an extraordinary achievement in every department and should be treasured as an important document of life. ...

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2. ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES!!!!!!

   , February 8, 2002
   Reviewer: Coffy - See all Coffy's reviews

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   1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Color Purple review helpful I love The Color Purple, it is one of my all time favorite movies. It has excellent performances, beautiful cinematography and it has a very good musical score. But i think the standout performances in the movie were by Whoppi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery and Danny Glover, they were all terrific. I think that this movie should have gotten all 11 Academy Award Nominations. I have watched this movie millions of times and it keeps on getting better everytime i see it. This one is definetly A MUST SEE if you haven't seen it yet. ...

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