The Color Purple (12A)
Screen 1, Monday 29 Jan 2024, 17:00
- ends at 19:41
A new, musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.
Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks, who act as Celie and Sofia respectively, are taking on roles previously played by Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in the 1985 film.
The film, based on Alice Walker's classic book and the Broadway musical, follows the story of a black American teenage girl, Celie, who is born into poverty in racially divided Georgia in the early 1900s.
Oprah is a producer of the new film, as is Steven Spielberg, who directed the 1985 version.
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