The Color Purple - DVD

The film The Colour Purple was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The richly structured plot, spanning several decades, tells the story of Celie, an uneducated rural woman from the American South. After being forced into marriage with a cruel man whom she must address as ‘sir,’ Celie withdraws into herself and confides her suffering only to God. It is her friendship with two wonderful women that gives her the strength to find self-confidence and the ability to forgive...