EEW Magazine Online examines the underwhelming box office performance of the latest adaptation of "The Color Purple" as a case study in audience fatigue and a call to action for storytellers to embrace the full spectrum of Black life.

The acting is superb, but the tone of the slow-burning drama is devastatingly depressing. Still, Viola Davis and Sandra Bullock both deliver compelling performances worth watching.

Viola Davis’s story is a perfect fit to inspire those who have bigger dreams that God has placed in their heart but are feeling discouraged by their small beginnings. Davis grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, one of six children in a poverty-stricken family.