The Color Purple

(1985)

Synopsis

Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. From 1909 to 1949, Celie (Goldberg--Ghosts of Mississippi), a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

Directors

Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Hayes, Menno Meyjes, Kathleen Kennedy, Quincy Jones, Peter Guber, Frank Marshall, Jon Peters, Richard Alonzo, Greg Elam, Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Steven Spielberg, Bo Welch, Linda DeScenna, Michael J. Benavente, Quincy Jones, Warner Bros.

Production year

1985

Rating

PG-13

Studio

Warner Bros.

Runtime

154 minutes

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard Pugh