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New Orleans Film Society

The Color Purple

USA 155 min.

Synopsis

Author Alice Walker’s intimate story of suffering, endurance, and triumph is set in early 20th century rural South. Celie Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) is a browbeaten, much abused, nearly illiterate black farm girl who, over the course of 40 years grows into a woman of self-assurance and wit, a woman with her own dreams and identity.

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