The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two... strong female companions. Taking place in the Southern United States during the early 1900s to mid-1930s, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman, Celie Harris , whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is fourteen, she has already had two children by her father . He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces Celie to marry a local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister" , who treats her like a slave.
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| Release date: | December 18, 1985 |
| Directed by: | Steven Spielberg |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 154 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones |
| Editor: | Michael Kahn |
| Music by: | Rod Temperton, Jeremy Lubbock, Caiphus Semenya, Andraé Crouch, Quincy Jones |
| Cinematography: | Allen Daviau |
| Screenplay by: | Menno Meyjes |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Color Purple |