The Color Purple
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the novel The Color Purple has been praised for its acting, direction, screenplay, music, and overall production. The film stars actors Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey during the 20th century. The story is really what sells this movie...
Hard Lives
The plot follows some of the hard lives young Black women faced in the early 1900s, especially in terms of domestic violence, assault, poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie, the main character, finds her home in two young women who help her through, but the road is never easy.