The Color Purple (1985) 35th Anniversary


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Academy Award® winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple. From 1909 to 1949, Celie (Goldberg), a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

  • Release Date: February 23, 2020
  • Genre: Drama
  • Screenplay: Menno Meyjes
  • Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures