The color purple [videorecording] / Warner Brothers. - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1997. - 1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Based on the novel by Alice Walker. Videodisc release of the 1985 motion picture by Warner Brothers. Dolby digital sound; widescreen version. Special features: interactive menus; scene access; production notes; 2 theatrical trailers.

Executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Guber ; producer-director, Steven Spielberg ; screenplay, Menno Meyjes. Executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Guber ; producer-director, Steven Spielberg ; screenplay, Menno Meyjes.

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.

Rated PG-13.


DVD format.


Closed captioned.
Dialogue in English, with optional French soundtrack, and optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.

0790729717 9780790729718

085391153429

11534 Warner Home Video


Feature films.
Sisters--Drama.
Family--Drama.
Abused women--Drama.
Family violence--Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

CM DVD 00249

791.4372