Film Night - The Color Purple (12A)

2023 (Musical)

Director: Blitz Bazawule

With Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P Henson

Runtime: 141 mins

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

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Billing itself as “a bold new take on the beloved classic”, this is Alice Walker’s novel

reinterpreted as a musical. In 1909 Celie, a young black American girl, is given away

in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer, Albert, who treats her cruelly.

Deliverance comes in the unexpected form of Albert’s mistress Shug Avery, a jazz

singer who takes her away from her misery.