Summer Film Series at the Center ~ The Color Purple
Suffolk Tourism presents the 2025 feature film, “The Color Purple,” at 8pm on Friday, August 15, 2025, at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts (in the Birdsong Theater).
General admission is free. Rated PG-13.
Grab your favorite bestie or partner for an evening of good food, conversation, and a great movie!
Film Synopsis:
The Color Purple is a 2023 American musical period drama film directed by Blitz Bazawule, with screenplay by Marcus Gardley based on the stage musical of the same name – which, in turn, is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Spielberg and Quincy Jones. Spielberg and Jones return as producers for the 2023 film, along with its Broadway producers Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey, the latter of whom also starred in the 1985 film.
The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Halle Bailey, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and Fantasia Barrino in her film debut. Brooks and Barrino reprise their roles from the productions of the stage musical. It tells the story of Celie, an African American woman dealing with the hardships of living with an abusive husband and living in the American South during the early 1900s.
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