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Theatrical Release Date:
12/18/1985
DVD Release Date:
03/26/1997
Run Time:
154min.
Director(s):
Distributor(s):
Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Genre(s):
Drama

Plot: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper ... Read More

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