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The color purple / Warner Brothers ; screenplay by Menno Meyjes ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones; directed by Steven Spielberg.
Annenberg Library - Reserve VHS PS3573.A425 C622 1991
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple, author.
- Series:
- Family classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Film adaptations.
- Walker, Alice.
- Walker, Alice, 1944-.
- Sisters--Drama.
- Sisters.
- Family violence.
- Abused women.
- Families--Drama.
- Families.
- Abused women--Drama.
- Family violence--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (154 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Letterbox format.
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1991]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC; Dolby surround; stereo.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- Dolby
- VHS
- NTSC
- 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.
- Participant:
- Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Allen Daviau; film editor, Michael Kahn; music, Quincy Jones.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
- Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture by Warner Brothers.
- ISBN:
- 0790703270
- OCLC:
- 24761030
- Publisher Number:
- 085391153436
- 11534 Warner Home Video
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