The color purple [videorecording] / Warner Brothers.

Other Titles: Color purple.

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1997.

ISBN: 0790729717

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

Subject(s): Feature films.
Sisters Drama.
Family Drama.
Abused women Drama.
Family violence Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Credits: Executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Guber ; producer-director, Steven Spielberg ; screenplay, Menno Meyjes.

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

Target Audience: Rated PG-13.

Notes: Dialogue in English, with optional French soundtrack, and optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Closed captioned.
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.

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.