The Color Purple

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Cast

Fantasia Barrino

as Celie

Taraji P. Henson

as Shug Avery

Danielle Brooks

as Sofia

Colman Domingo

as Mister

Corey Hawkins

as Harpo

Phylicia Pearl Mpasi

as Young Celie

Halle Bailey

as Young Nettie

Ciara

as Nettie

H.E.R.

as Squeak

David Alan Grier

as Reverend Avery

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Sometimes it's better just not to re-imagine/invent/devise a feature that had such a visceral impact not just on the cinema, but on the theatre and, of course - the literary world in the first place. I"m not sure this isn't one of those. It follows the story of the young "Celie" who is essentially s...

r96sk

A film of quality, this. <em>'The Color Purple'</em> is a blast, what is a noteworthy thing for me to say given I'm not a lover of musicals; though, to be fair, I'm way more into them in recent years since doing reviews... have learnt to appreciate 'em! This has good music alongside an extremely ...

Brent Marchant

In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve routinely made it clear that I’m not a big fan of movie musicals. In addition, less known is the fact that I’ve also never been particularly enamored with the original dramatic version of this story (1985), a picture in which director Steven Spielberg still h...

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