Product Information
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.Product Identifiers
EAN7321900183192
eBay Product ID (ePID)3943125
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 Year2003
FeaturesTrailers\Featurettes - 1. CONVERSATION WITH ANCESTORS: The Colour Purple From Book To Screen\2. A COLLABORATION OF SPIRITS: Casting And Acting The Colour Purple\3. CULTIVATING A CLASSIC: The Making Of The Colour Purple\4. THE Colour PURPLE: THE MUSICAL\Stills Gallery
GenreDrama, General
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 5.1
Movie/TV TitleThe Color Purple