COMPASS CLASSIX - The Color Purple (1985)

It's about life. It's about love. It's about us. 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--Ghosts of Mississippi), 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. Academy Award nominations for: Best Picture Nominee Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg).

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