What is The Color Purple (1985 movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = The Color Purple | image = | caption = | director = [[Steven Spielberg]] | producer = Steven Spielberg<br/>[[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]<br/>[[Quincy Jones]]<br/>[[Frank Marshall]] | screenplay = [[Menno Meyjes]] | starring = [[Whoopi Goldberg]]<br/>[[Danny Glover]]<br/>[[Adolph Caesar]]<br/>[[Margaret Avery]]<br/>[[Rae Dawn Chong]] | music = Quincy Jones | cinematography = [[Allen Daviau]] | editing = [[Michael Kahn (film editor)|Michael Kahn]] | studio = [[Amblin Entertainment]] | distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] | released = December 18, 1985 | runtime = 153 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $15 million | gross = $142 million }} '''''The Color Purple''''' is a 1985 [[United States|American]] [[period drama]] movie directed by [[Steven Spielberg]] with a screenplay by [[Menno Meyjes]], based on the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning 1982 novel of the same name by [[Alice Walker]]. It was Spielberg's eighth movie as a director, and marked a change from the summer [[blockbuster]]s for which he had become known. It was also the first movie directed by Spielberg for which [[John Williams]] did not compose the music. It stars [[Whoopi Goldberg]], [[Danny Glover]], [[Desreta Jackson]], [[Margaret Avery]], [[Oprah Winfrey]], [[Rae Dawn Chong]], [[Willard Pugh]], and [[Adolph Caesar]] in his final roles. Filmed in Anson and Union counties in [[North Carolina]], the movie tells the story of an young [[African American]] girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems African American women faced during the early [[20th century]], including [[domestic violence]], [[incest]], [[pedophilia]], [[poverty]], [[racism]], and [[sexism]]. Celie is changed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female friends.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Corliss, Richard|title=Cinema: The Three Faces of Steve the Col