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) that is the first film that Whoopi Goldberg had worked in. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie Harris is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions.
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