TY - ADVS AU - Spielberg,Steven AU - Goldberg,Whoopi AU - Glover,Danny AU - Winfrey,Oprah AU - Walker,Alice ED - Warner Bros. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - The color purple SN - 0790729717 AV - CM DVD 00249 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 1997/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Feature films KW - Sisters KW - Drama KW - Family KW - Abused women KW - Family violence KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - 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; Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey; Rated PG-13 N2 - 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 ER -