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The Color Purple

Original title: The Color Purple
Year: 1985
Running time: 147 min.
Country: United States
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Menno Meyjes. Novel: Alice Walker
Music: Quincy Jones
Cinematography: Allen Daviau
Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Adolph Caesar, Akosua Busia, Laurence Fishburne, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong, Margaret Avery, Bennet Guillory
Producer: Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment
Genre: Drama | Melodrama. Racism. 1900s. 1910s. 1920s
Synopsis: An acclaimed drama, spanning a period of forty years, in which Celie, a black girl, is mistreated by two men until suddenly a blues singer enters her life and her real self begins to emerge. The story is based on Alice Walker's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel.

Awards: 1985: Academy Awards: 11 nominations, inc. Best Picture and Actress (Goldberg)

1985: Golden Globes Awards: Best Actress (Goldberg). 5 Nominations

1985: 2 National Board of Review Awards: Best Film and Best Actress (Goldberg)

1985: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director

1985: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay

1986: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay

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1985: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: 3 Nom. including Best Actress (Goldberg)

Critics' reviews

"Mr. Spielberg directs it as a kind of slapstick, which doesn't work."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"'The Color Purple' is the year's best film (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"It's almost impossible to discern the narrative line (...) A lot of good actors (...) are lost to Spielberg's shallow melodrama"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"There are some great scenes and great performances in 'The Color Purple', but it is not a great film."

Variety
"A lavish, expansive, emotional epic (...) Spielberg's ability to turn the harsh, sometimes unforgiving tragedies into grand, moving triumphs of the human spirit is remarkable."

Bilge Ebiri: Rolling Stone
"[It] has arrived as a film, its story still distinctive and deeply moving. For the film's existence alone we can be grateful (...) [Spielberg's] almost every decision has been disastrous"

Sheila Benson: Los Angeles Times
"Spielberg's decision to understand her plight as one of 'yearning for escape' cheapens the character (...) Spielberg's crowd-pleasing sense of rhythm and eye-catching visual style (...) makes 'Purple' engaging"

Noel Murray: AV Club
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90 Most Moving Movies (47)

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