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The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film 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.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of 250 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Building on the legacy of the previous film adaptation while incorporating elements of the stage musical, The Color Purple is a crowd-pleasing testament to resilience in the face of trauma."
The Color of Money received a generally positive critical response on its release, although some critics thought that the film was an inferior followup to The Hustler. Based on 48 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an 88% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 7.10/10. The site's consensus reads: "That it's ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker's “The Color Purple.” In nature ...
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 ...
The Color of Pomegranates [a] is a 1969 Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. [1] [2] The film is a poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova. [3] It has appeared in many polls as one of the greatest films ever made [4] [5] and was hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
The jumbled book-to-movie-to-musical-to-movie-musical path of “The Color Purple” sometimes shows. But the film takes off when Shug ( Henson ) makes her show-stopping entrance.