The Color Purple Page #8

Season #1
Synopsis: This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Genre: History, Music, Talk-Show
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey
Production: Warner Home Video
  Nominated for 11 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
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PG-13
Year:
1985
154 min
13,228 Views

Thank you, God

God is trying to tell you something

Maybe God

Maybe God is trying to tell you

Something right now

Right now

God is trying to tell you something

See, Daddy, sinners have soul too.

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Right now

-Right now

-Right now

God is trying to tell you something

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Right now

Right now

Right now

I'm gonna praise your name

God is trying to tell you something

I'll praise your name

God is trying to tell you something

Speak to me, Lord

You expecting anybody?

No. Probably just some peopIe

lost their way.

Nettie!

Celie!

Nettie!

Hey, Nettie.

Celie!

This is your son, Adam.

Mama!

He says, "Welcome."

He says, "Greetings."

He says,

"This is the day of his dreams."

Yeah.

Celie. Come on.

This is Olivia.

Mama!

I want to know you, Mama.

My mother.

And, CeIie, Adam has a wife. Tashi.

Tashi. Come.

Tashi, this is my sister, Celie.

Me and you, us never part

Makidada

Me and you, us never part

Makidada

Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea

Makidada

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Menno Meyjes

Menno Meyjes (born 1954, Eindhoven) is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director and producer.Meyjes moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the 1985 film The Color Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker. In 1989 he gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with George Lucas and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño del mono loco. In 2002 Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max.He attended San Francisco Art Institute; there he studied with George Kuchar, James Broughton, and Larry Jordan. more…

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