The Color Purple (1985)

PG-13, 154 mins
Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Rae Dawn Chong, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar
Genres: Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Menno Meyjes

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.

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