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Title:

The color purple [videorecording] / a Warner Bros. & Amblin production ; produced by Steven Spielberg ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Menno Meyjes ; directed by Steven Spielberg.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Special ed., anamorphic widescreen.

Publisher:

Warner Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Dysfunctional families--Drama.
African American women--Southern States--History--20th century--Drama.
African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century--Drama.
Walker, Alice,--1944---Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Fiction films.
Feature films.

Other Authors:

Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950-
Glover, Danny.
Caesar, Adolph, d. 1986.
Walker, Alice, 1944-

Notes:

Whoopie Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey. Based on the novel by Alice Walker. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Features: awards notes, theatrical trailers, Conversations with ancestors : from book to screen, A collaboration of spirits : casting and acting, Cultivating a classic : the making of The color purple, The color purple : the musical, storyboard, photo galleries.

Summary:

Set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Celie, a poor black Southern woman, whose friendship with two women helps her overcome the brutality of her father and husband.

ISBN:

9780780663282
0780663284

OCLC:

(OCoLC)741135393

UPC:

883929149247

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)