The Long Beach Film Society’s “Classics Weekend Matinees” series kicks off Saturday, February 20th with Steven Spielberg’s 1985 masterpiece “The Color Purple,” winner of the Best Director award from the Director’s Guild of America, and 11-time Academy Award nominee.

Oscar-nominee Whoopi Goldberg is mesmerizing in her motion picture debut as Celie, an African American woman who endures a life of hardship and tremendous abuse only to emerge as an empowered and soulful survivor through the help of some friends – namely, singer Shug Avery and daughter-in-law Sophia. For those respective roles, both Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey also received Oscar nominations.

We will be presented a rarely-screened 35mm print of “The Color Purple,” courtesy of Warner Bros.

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*Bonus screening Sunday, February 21 at 11:00am as well!*