The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 154 minuten
Alternative title: De Kleur Paars
Country:
United States
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey
IMDb score:
7,7 (103.626)
Releasedate: 18 December 1985
The Color Purple plot
"It's about life. It's about love. It's about us."
Georgia, 1909. Celie, poor, black and scorned, is married off to an elderly man who abuses her. Life isn't easy for Celie, but she knows how to survive and needs little to make it through. Then her husband's mistress, a flamboyant blues singer, comes into her life. She gives Celie the courage to ask, to laugh, to play and ultimately, to love.
Actors and actresses
Celie Harris Johnson
Albert Johnson
Shug Avery
Sofia Johnson
Harpo Johnson
Nettie Harris
Young Celie Harris
Old Mister
Squeak
Miss Millie
Reviews & comments
Filmkriebel
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- 10012 messages
- 4678 votes
Long time no see. This very first attempt by Spielberg at the serious film has gone down the wrong way for many. Still, this is a small masterpiece due to the great acting of just about everyone. Goldberg and Glover in the first place, but also Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery are beautiful. This sad story about Celie, who was used as an object for most of her life by a mean husband, gripped my throat again. It is also a story in which you see the world around Celie gradually become more beautiful and emancipated. The very sentimental ending tastes like honey, but closes this sometimes heavy film about the heavy life of the black "commoners" with a hopeful feeling that the bad in this world can always be banned.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
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Oh dear. Spielberg is primarily a director who makes entertaining films but has also made some beautiful serious films. Obviously this is one of his first as he obviously doesn't know how to do it yet.
Mainly because everything is so exaggerated. Music always fits the mood and immediately swells when it becomes happy or sad. But especially the acting is a horror with not only mediocre performances but above all because of everyone's overacting. From just screaming to an abundance of pouty lips. And then also Oprah is a rather exaggerated role (really, she can't act, she also proved that this year in The Butler), Glover in a boring cliché role and Avery who also comes into the film quite screaming with that smile.
Anyway, there are still some pretty nice scenes in it, sometimes it is shot nicely warm (but also too often very boring), editing is good and the story is not that bad. Also the second half (right from when I had to turn the disc actually) is a lot better and more subtle. As if Spielberg learned how to deal with such a drama during the films themselves. Unfortunately he already lost me by the first part and then the film is really too long. 1,5
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8441 votes
It is well portrayed, but the film is too sentimental to be completely good.
The music was appreciated.
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