The Color Purple (1985) | Reviews
07/12/2023
“The Color Purple,” directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1985, is an adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name
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The Color Purple (1985)
The Color Purple (1985) | Review by Pauline Kael
05/01/2018
If you’re among the millions of people who have read the book, you probably expect the actors to be more important than they turn out to be. The movie is amorphous; it’s a pastoral about the triumph of the human spirit, and it blurs on you.