Director Steven Spielberg

Starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery

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The Color Purple

🍿 88% Audience Score 1986 N/A

🎭 Drama

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📊 Performance IndexMilestones

🌎 Global Tracker (Target: $500M) 20%

🇺🇸 Domestic (US) (Target: $500M) 20%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom (Target: $25M) 9%

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Opening Weekends

🇺🇸 US Weekend £1,710,333

🇬🇧 UK Weekend £943,820

Lifetime Grosses

🇺🇸 Total North American £98,467,863

🇬🇧 Total United Kingdom £2,238,995

🌐 Worldwide Total £100,706,858

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Cast & Crew

Directors

Steven Spielberg Director

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Cast

Danny Glover

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Margaret Avery

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Oprah Winfrey

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Willard E. Pugh

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Akosua Busia

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Desreta Jackson

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Adolph Caesar

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Rae Dawn Chong

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Dana Ivey

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Leonard Jackson

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Bennet Guillory

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John Patton Jr.

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Carl Anderson

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Susan Beaubian

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James Tillis

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Phillip Strong

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Laurence Fishburne

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Peto Kinsaka

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Lelo Masamba

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Margaret Freeman

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Howard Starr

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Daphaine Oliver

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Jadili Johnson

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Lillian Njoki Distefano

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Donna Buie

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Leon Rippy

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John R. Hart

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David Thomas

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Carrie Murray

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Juliet Poe

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Katie Simon

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Ethel Taylor

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Marcus Covington

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Marcus Liles

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April Myers

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Maurice Moore

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Lechanda Latharp

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Drew Bundini Brown

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Arnold F. Turner

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Jeris Poindexter

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Hawthorne James

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Sonny Terry

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Greg Phillinganes

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Roy Gaines

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Paulinho Da Costa

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Nana Yaw Asiedu

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Clarence Avant

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Bayo Martin

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Ndugu Chancler

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Jeffrey Kwashi

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Pete Munzhi

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Aniijia Rae Schockley

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Maria Howell

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Gayle King

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Joni Palmer

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Madison T. Shockley Sr.

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