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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.
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 ...
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 .
Then: Willard E. Pugh. Pugh plays Sofia’s hardworking husband (and Mister’s son) in the 1985 film. During The Color Purple reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2010, he recalled the moment ...
"The Color Purple" has evolved many times over the years. Starting from the book that Alice Walker wrote in 1982, the story starring Celie — a young, uneducated African American woman, who ends ...
"The Color Purple" is considered a landmark book, movie and musical, all stemming from Alice Walker's 1982 book by the same title. Spielberg's film earned 11 Academy Award nominations in 1986.
The Color Purple: Music From the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name released in November 1986 by Qwest Records.It consists of an original score composed by Quincy Jones and original songs performed by various artists.
He became The Purple One after he and his band, the Revolution, put out “Purple Rain” in 1984 and a won a Grammy for it, along with an Oscar for the score to the companion film.