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The Color Purple (1985): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.7IMDb
73%Tomatometer
78Metacritic
7.7TMDB

The Color Purple is a 1985 drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, 78 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 1 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 7 of 94 films from 1985 in our catalog and number 680 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh, Akosua Busia.

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