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The Color Purple

The Color Purple

7.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

347

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2023

Release Year

141 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Keywords

adultery
child abuse
based on novel or book
southern usa
faith
forgiveness
abusive father
slavery
georgia
musical
based on play or musical
child bride
memphis, tennessee
lesbian relationship
domestic abuse
religion
domestic violence
racism
older man younger woman relationship
incest
county jail
self esteem
hardship
lgbt
child marriage
estranged family member
pregnant teen
female empowerment
forced marriage
vexed
1920s
1940s
1910s
sisterhood
1930s
unwanted marriage
women's liberation
christian missionary
1900s
complex
sister sister relationship
race relations
resilience
soul music
child sexual abuse
20th century
bisexual woman
underage marriage
familial reconciliation

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Reviews(3)

7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 1, 2024

6
6/10

Sometimes it's better just not to re-imagine/invent/devise a feature that had such a visceral impact not just on the cinema, but on the theatre and, of course - the literary world in the first place. I"m not sure this isn't one of those. It follows the story of the young "Celie" who is essentially s

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r96sk

r96sk

February 8, 2024

9
9/10

A film of quality, this. <em>'The Color Purple'</em> is a blast, what is a noteworthy thing for me to say given I'm not a lover of musicals; though, to be fair, I'm way more into them in recent years since doing reviews... have learnt to appreciate 'em! This has good music alongside an extremely

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

February 19, 2024

6
6/10

In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve routinely made it clear that I’m not a big fan of movie musicals. In addition, less known is the fact that I’ve also never been particularly enamored with the original dramatic version of this story (1985), a picture in which director Steven Spielberg still h

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