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DVD

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  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection (2 copies)
  • OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection
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The color purple

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Widescreen version.

Performers

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1997.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this is the richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls Mr., Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth ... and the strength to forgive.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

Videodisc release of the 1985 motion picture.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Rated PG-13.

In English with optional French language soundtrack ; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.

Special features include: Interactive menus ; scene access ; production notes ; 2 theatrical trailers.

Presented in a matted widescreen format, preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical presentation ; enhanced for widescreen TVs.

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