The Color Purple is a 1985 American drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker and adapted to the screen by Menno Meyjes. The film stars Whoopie Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, and Rae Dawn Chong.
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| - The Color Purple is a 1985 American drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker and adapted to the screen by Menno Meyjes. The film stars Whoopie Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, and Rae Dawn Chong.
- The Color Purple is an epistolary novel in 1982 by American author Alice Walker . She won in 1983 both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction with it. Later, the book was filmed under the same title , and was also a musical of the same name about.
- The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. The film starred Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, and introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Harris.
- The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
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| - Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
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| - The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.[2][3]
- The Color Purple is an epistolary novel in 1982 by American author Alice Walker . She won in 1983 both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction with it. Later, the book was filmed under the same title , and was also a musical of the same name about. The story is mainly set in rural Georgia and tells about the lives of black women in the 1930s in the southern United States. The novel is often the target of censorship has become and is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, and especially because of the violence that occurs in it. The main character in the story is Celie, a twenty poor black woman in her letters tells about her life since she was fourteen years old. At fourteen she was abused and raped by her father and she then tried to prevent her sister would suffer the same fate. Then she tells about her life with "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Eventually, she learns that her husband all the time the letters of her sister withheld, and the anger she feels gives her the strength to find herself and her own way. Her close friend Shug teaches her what it means to be independent. Loving and
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