The Color Purple

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DVD Features:

Rated: PG-13
Run Time: 2 hours, 32 minutes
Video: Color
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: May 15, 2007
Originally Released: 1985
Label: Warner Home Video
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

Dolby Surround 5.1 English
Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0 French

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Whoopi Goldberg & Danny Glover
Performer:		Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Akosua Busia & Willard Pugh
Directed by		Steven Spielberg
Edited by		Michael Kahn
Screenwriting by		Menno Meyjes
Composition by		Quincy Jones
Produced by		Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Quincy Jones
Director of Photography:		Allen Daviau
Executive Production by		Jon Peters & Peter Guber

Entertainment Reviews:

Sojourner

Aug 22, 2019

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 5, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

Movie Metropolis

Jan 19, 2011

Sight and Sound

Mar 1, 1985

New York Times

Dec 18, 1985

Entertainment Weekly

Mar 21, 2003

Product Description:

Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia. The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her father's child. Ugly and unloved, separated from her children and her sister, Celie's only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover) who treats her little better than a slave. Her life changes forever when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shug (Margaret Avery), into the house. THE COLOR PURPLE was also the film debut for Oprah Winfrey, who beautifully plays Celie's sister-in-law, Sofia. THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg, Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.

Plot Synopsis:

Steven Spielberg's gentle film is a masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a southern black girl's rise from tragedy to personal triumph through the course of her lifetime. The acting in the film is superb, including terrific performances by Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, and Adolph Caesar.

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Production Notes:

Theatrical release: December 18, 1985.
The film was shot in North Carolina and Kenya.
Writer Alice Walker was very involved with the film version of her novel and made sure that the filmmakers accurately portrayed the family as middle class, not poor.
Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey made their screen-acting debuts in the film. The film's producer and composer, musician Quincy Jones, happened to spot Winfrey on television hosting a local Chicago talk show and considered her perfect for the role of the spunky, outspoken Sofia.
Winfrey, as Sofia, is married to Harpo (Willard Pugh). Winfrey has said that she felt destined to play the role--and interestingly enough, Harpo spelled backward is Oprah, adding proof to her theory.