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The color purple [videorecording] / Warner Brothers Pictures ; screenplay, Menno Meyjes ; producer/director, Steven Spielberg.

Contributor(s): Spielberg, Steven, 1946- | Meyjes, Menno | Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- | Glover, Danny | Winfrey, Oprah | Walker, Alice, 1944-. Color purple | Warner Bros. Pictures.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2003Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Feature films | Families -- Drama | Abused women -- DramaDDC classification: 791.4372
Production Credits: Director of photography, Allen Davian ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, Quincy Jones.
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey.Summary: An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
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791.4372 COL 2003 (Browse shelf) Set of 2 DVD Videos 1 Available SLASx,05000,01,GR 1000147989

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.

Based on the novel by Alice Walker.

Director of photography, Allen Davian ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, Quincy Jones.

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey.

An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.

DVD.