The color purple / Warner Bros. presents a Steven Spielberg film ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones ; screenplay by Menno Meyjes ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; Amblin Entertainment in association with Quincy Jones ; a Guber-Peters Company production.

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The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Color purple (Motion picture) Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors:	Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) (Presenter) Amblin Entertainment (Firm) (Production company) Guber-Peters Company (Production company) Warner Home Video (Firm) (Production company)
Other Authors:	Spielberg, Steven, 1946- (Film director, Film producer) Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954- (Film producer) Marshall, Frank (Film producer) Jones, Quincy, 1933- (Film producer, composer (expression)) Meyjes, Menno (Screenwriter) Glover, Danny (Actor) Caesar, Adolph, 1933-1986 (Actor) Avery, Margaret (Actor) Chong, Rae Dawn (Actor) Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- (Actor) Winfrey, Oprah (Actor) Busia, Akosua (Actor) Pugh, Willard (Actor) Walker, Alice, 1944-
Language:	English French Spanish
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned. Includes French dubbed version and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Published:	Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., [2007]
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:	Walker, Alice > Film adaptations. African American women > Drama. Sisters > Drama. Adult child sexual abuse victims > Fiction. Abused wives > Fiction. African American women. Sisters. Southern States > Fiction. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Films for the hearing impaired. Drama.
Genre:	Film adaptations. Drama. Fiction. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

Description
Summary:	The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
Note:	Based on the novel by Alice Walker. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985. Special features include cast biographies, production notes, awards, theatrical trailers.
Call Number:	CP1 D0079882 VideoDVD
Audience:	MPAA rating: PG-13.
ISBN:	1419855093 9781419855092
Credits:	Director of photography, Allen Daviau ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, Quincy Jones.
System Details:	DVD format; region 1; widescreen version; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround (English), surround stereo (French).
Cast:	Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Willard Pugh.