Shug Avery The Reconciliation: "The Color Purple" Movie

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Beautiful scene. "God is trying to tell you something." Prodigal children and reconciliation, a film that tells a powerful human story by director Steven Spielberg and based on the Pulitzer Prize- Winning novel by Alice Walker.

Film clips & info., https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/

Novel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple_(film)

‘The Color Purple’ Revisited: Why Spielberg’s Movie Is Still Problematic and Meaningful to Many Black Women
IndieWire gathered a panel of several black women scholars to assess the legacy of the Alice Walker adaptation for its 35th anniversary. By Tambay Obenson, IndieWire, Apr 3, 2020.
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/the-color-purple-debate-anniversary-1202217786/

Shug Avery role casting for "The Color Purple," with director Steven Spielberg.


- ‘Color Purple’ nominee Margaret Avery sees same Hollywood bias three decades later,' LA Times, 2016.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-conversation-margaret-avery-20160228-story.html