When I first watched this movie almost 2 decades ago I was still a teenager and didn't even know it existed or anything about it. It came on TNT one day when I didn't have anything else to do....at the time I was not expecting a movie called "The Color Purple" to be any good and my first assumption was "most likely a chick flick" but I had nothing else to do and there was nothing else on and man I was extremely surprised at how good it was...I should have known with it being a Steven Spielberg movie. It funny, sad, very sad, parts of it make ya feel angry and uncomfortable but it's all worth it in the end. If you haven't seen this movie yet I definitely recommend you crawl out from under the rock you been living under and go watch a good movie or 2.
Sidenote:Was really surprised at how well Oprah acted in this she was funny and made ya almost cry at a couple moments in the movie.