TCM Big Screen Classics Presents The Color Purple

A 35th Anniversary Event
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.

In honor of Black History Month, this classic film returns to cinemas and includes exclusive insights from Turner Classic Movies.

Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes

Rated PG-13