Steven Spielberg, gifted creator of "Jaws," the "Indiana Jones" sagas, "E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial" and other mega-hits, turned "The Color Purple" into one of his most remarkable successes a film that won the National Board of Review's Best Picture award, appeared on 10-Best lists everywhere, garnered 11 Academy Award nommations and earned Spielberg the Best Director citation from the Directors Guild of America. Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple" is the richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mr" Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth...and the strength to forgive.