Based on the novel by Alice Walker. Videodisc release of the 1985 motion picture by Warner Brothers. Dolby digital sound; widescreen version. Special features: interactive menus; scene access; production notes; 2 theatrical trailers. Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey.
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.
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