Parents Guide for
The Color Purple (1985) More at IMDbPro »

There is a scene implying that a father raped his daughter and gets her pregnant. After the baby is born he warns her never to tell anyone.

A man is on top of a young girl and they are having sex. No nudity is shown with the girl, but the man is shirtless and the camera shows the bed moving. It also implies that he had an orgasim because of what he says before he stops moving.

A show woman sings and dances in a jute joint for people while she wears a revealing red flashy dress. Men are drooling over her making sexual remarks. Couples kissing and dancing intimately is shown.

A girl finds out that she is pregnant, and the grandfather gets upset getting the point across that it was because she had her "legs open" to everyone.

2 woman kiss romantically in a room while they both caress eachothers arms. It is brief and the scene fades away.

2 woman going through some photos find nude pictures of a woman. The nudity is shown but it is very brief.

A husband and wife beat each other up.

There is a huge fight in a jute joint between every person there, it involves punching and kicking, chair throwing and beer bottle hitting.

A man slaps a woman for talking back to him.

A black woman punches a white man which causes a riot, and another white man ends up knocking her out and busting her eye using the butt of a gun.

A woman gets angry and grabs the dinner knife and threatens to kill a man.

There is a lot of hostility against black people.

There are many slang bad words as well as common ones. There is a lot of religious topics, references of rebelling against the church, etc.

There is smoking and a lot of drinking.

Several people are shown drunk.

A man physically and emotionally seperates 2 loving sisters apart.