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The life and times of Celie, a black girl, who suffers years of abuse at the hands of two men. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.

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EAN5051892129862

eBay Product ID (ePID)168152332

Product Key Features

ActorWhoopi Goldberg, Leonard Jackson, Rae Dawn Chong, Akosua Busia, Margaret Avery, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar

Film/TV TitleThe Color Purple

DirectorSteven Spielberg

Release Year2013

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesUltra-Violet Digital Copy (Expires 15/04/2015)

GenreDrama, General

Run Time148 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationSteven 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.

ReviewsNew York Times - ...Momentum, warmth and staying power....[Goldberg] eventually grows into a tremendously compelling figure..., Sight and Sound - ...Remarkably faithful in incident and detail to Alice Walker's original...

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Color Purple

Consumer AdviceContains references to child sexual abuse