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The color purple / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; produced by Steven Spielberg [and others] ; screenplay by Menno Meyjes ; directed by Steven Spielberg.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple, author.
Contributor:
Glover, Danny, actor.
Caesar, Adolph, 1933-1986, actor.
Avery, Margaret, actor.
Chong, Rae Dawn, actor.
Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- actor.
Spielberg, Steven, 1946- film director.
Meyjes, Menno, screenwriter.
Jones, Quincy, 1933-2024, conductor (expression).
Warner Bros, film distribution company.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), film production company.
Turner Entertainment Co., film distribution company.
Isaac Norris Library Fund.
Series:
Best of Warner Bros. 50 film collection.
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Walker, Alice, 1944---Film adaptations.
Walker, Alice.
Walker, Alice, 1944-.
African American women--Drama.
African American women.
Abused women.
Abused women--Drama.
Sisters--Drama.
Sisters.
Friendship--Drama.
Friendship.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Family films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (153 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. : Turner Entertainment Co., 2013.
Language Note:
In English, dubbed French, and dubbed Spanish; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Open-captioned in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
System Details:
Blu-ray disc, 1080p, NTSC, Region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (French, Spanish); 1.0 (Spanish).
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
digital optical Dolby Digital
NTSC
video file Blu-ray 1080p
Summary:
Celie, a poor African-American woman from the South, relies on her friend to help her to overcome the brutality she has experienced at the hands of her father and husband.
Participant:
Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg.
Credits:
Director of photography, Allen Daviau; editor, Michael Kahn; music, Quincy Jones; production designer, J. Michael Riva.
Notes:
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1985.
Based on The color purple / by Alice Walker.
Local Notes:
Issued by Warner Bros. as one disc in the set Best of Warner Bros. 50 film collection. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have catalogued these items separately.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.
OCLC:
923751240
Publisher Number:
2000042952 Warner Bros.
3000045090 Warner Bros. (container)
3000045018 Warner Bros. (container)

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