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DVD The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is interesting, I think, because it deserves both the high praise and criticism that has dogged it since 1985 — the primary complaints being that it should have been directed by an African-American, and that it too obviously tries to be emotionally moving.It’s clear how it would have been a very different ...

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