one of my absolute favorites!

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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come to The Color Purple.I think this is hands down the best movie of 1985. Yes I include Out Of Africa in that statement. It's not my favourite movie of 1985 (so many more easy to watch, enjoyable movie experiences that year) but it's the best. It's so powerful.This is an insanely brave move by Spielberg!! Looking for a bit of credibility from his peers he chose to make a movie about subjects that are not suited to the movies! It is not an easy movie to sell, nor is It an easy movie watch. The main character Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) endures rape, incest, sexism, an abusive husband, domestic violence, chauvinism, the loss of her sister (The only person who truly loved her) and the loss of her children at birth. Danny Glover is one serious piece of $hït in this!! He is vile, evil and despicable. Great acting. All of the cast is superb, none more so than Oprah Winfrey, she is superb as Sophia (what happens to her may be the saddest part of the movie) likewise Margaret Avery and Willard E. Pugh (who is the comedy relief as Harpo) Laurence Fishburn has a small role too. And then, at the center of the movie is Whoopi Goldberg in what must surely rank as one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history. She should have been the winner of the Academy Award for best actress that year. She is perfect. Sady we lost a great serious actress when she started going down the comedic route. I only have real complaint in that there should have been a tender and touching scene for Winfrey, but for some reason Spielberg decides to go for a slapstick scene that misses the mark. Once again a Spielberg movie had me in tears, the end is one of the great heart-rending moments in the movies. The Academy's prejudice against Spielberg is blatantly evident in the fact that he was not nominated for Best Director. The movie received 11 nominations, for Best picture, Best Actress, has 2 nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Best Art Direction, Best Cinamatography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Score and Best Make Up, and a Best Director nod is conspicuously absent. And although The Color Purple had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. His movies made too much money and were too popular for him to be considered a real film maker. The Color Purple was the fourth highest grossing movie of 1985 (behind Back To The Future, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rocky IV) grossing $179 million at the domestic box office.

Movie Review: "The Color Purple" (1985)Director Steven Spielberg receives the award-winning novel by Alice Walker from 1982 translating into capable dramatic story-arcing suspense moments between Father-Daughter-relations to harsh to be portrayed in Up-Town-New-York-City nerighborhood, nevertheless explored by Adrian Lyne directing Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in "Fatal Attraction" (1987), in an fictional Southern child-abuse drama, indulging on how to make a living in rural all-black neighborhood apart from the slave-owning traditions of the pre-civil-war 19th century North America, when Spielberg creates acting beats throughout, especially Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover in superior play-mode, rescue the "Best-Picture" Academy-Award-nominated from a close-to-sure failure of being a prevailing motion picture after more than 30 years, which clearly becomes the vehicle of a growing-up director after directing genre classics "E.T.-the Extra-Terrastrial" (1982) and a second installment of "Indiana Jones" starring Harrison Ford and Cate Capshaw in Hollywood season 1983/1984 with George Lucas executive producing."The Color Purple" can be enjoyed as another sunday afternoon relaxing movie with emotional challenges in atmospheric cinematography and moody Southern décor by avoiding I must say a preferable book-read in stealing away from times of over-flowing visuals from screens all around us.© 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

This is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time. The editing and score are superb. The acting and directing - simply amazing. Cinematography is out of this world! I think that Whoopi Goldberg is a under rated dramatic actress. They could not picked a better actress to play the role. Cinematography was gorgeous. The editing was spot on. I am not good at reviews. I just know this is my all time favorite movie. I love how the cuts in between her shaving Mister and Suge Avery running all to the beat of the African music. Oprah's role as Ms. Sophia was amazing. She played the role excellently. I would have not cast Glover in the role as Mister, but rather Morgan Freeman. The script, score, acting, directing, editing - all superb

I saw this film in the theater when it first came out and remember thinking it was a powerful and well done film. I found it in a video story the other day and screened it for the first time in 30 years. Now I see why it was so powerful. It is, in my opinion Mr. Spielberg's best work. I've never been a fan of his films - although he is a great director - I never liked how he manages to take a good movie and make a ten year old the star. This film, however was a masterpiece. All the actors in this film deliver stellar performances. And most of the major players went on to great careers. The cinematography , sets, everything is super well done. Great film which I have now added to my library.