Warner Bros.
December 18, 1985
Historical Drama
DVD
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In my review (posted seven years ago, https://rereadingeverybookiown.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-color-purple.html) of the Alice Walker novel, I talk about how disappointing it was to revisit, but I have never been a fan of the movie, which I saw in '94. It doesn't help that I'd already read two negative reviews by critics I admire (Pauline Kael and Kathy Maio), at least one of whom pointed out the imbalance of emotional tones, and the wackadoodle timeline. Yep, sure enough, revisiting this flick a quarter century later, you get two little girls playing in a sunny field, and one of them is revealed to be heavily pregnant, and yet the music doesn't miss a beat. And then the next thing you know it's "Winter 1909" and the girl is giving birth, followed (but not immediately) by a scene set in "Spring 1909," where her baby is now seven months old! I didn't even stick around for Whoopi.
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