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The Color Purple (film)
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. The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which
John Williams
did not compose the music. The film starred
Danny Glover
,
Desreta Jackson
,
Margaret Avery
,
Oprah Winfrey
(in her film debut),
Adolph Caesar
,
Rae Dawn Chong
, and introduced
Whoopi Goldberg
as Celie Harris-Johnson.
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