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  2. ‘The Color Purple’ Review: Alice Walker’s Novel Lends Itself ...

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    Where do you stand on the 1985 film version of “The Color Purple,” which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, but won none? Some feel it wasn’t Steven Spielberg’s story to tell. Others ...

  3. The Color Purple (2023 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 2023 American musical period drama film directed by Blitz Bazawule. Marcus Gardley 's screenplay is based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg and ...

  4. The color purple: It's a new movie and an old hue that's rich ...

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    Now, with the Christmas Day opening of the second film based on Walker's 1982 book, purple takes a seat at the box office after the historic popularity of “Barbie” and all things pink.

  5. The Color Purple - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...

  6. The Color Purple (1985 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film that was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes.It is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.

  7. Movie Review: 'The Color Purple' is a stirring big-screen ...

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    Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule’s stirring “The Color Purple,” adapted from the Tony-winning ...

  8. 'The Color Purple' Is One of the Year's Best Movies Because ...

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    The Color Purple. Taraji P. Henson is an actor with range. Find me another actor who could play Benjamin Button's adoptive mother aging forward while her child ages in reverse, meme-machine and ...

  9. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Wikipedia

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    Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from the Olinka, (Alice Walker's fictional West African tribe) where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves the Olinka because of the war.