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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Warner Home Video
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:
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant, disturbing storytelling by Spielberg with standout performances.
Kansas City Kansan
...An intimate story of suffering, endurance and triumph....Distinctive and deeply moving...
Los Angeles Times
...Goldberg's stoic turn will go down as one of cinema's great breakouts...
Entertainment Weekly
The movie filled me with disbelief and disappointment.
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Sojourner
Spielberg's strategy was to broaden Walker's cunning simplifications, and in blowing up her plot, Spielberg not only makes its flaws more visible, he also uncovers, beneath the feminist rhetoric, the melodrama at its heart.
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 8/10 --
...we can forgive Spielberg his indulgences when the outcome is so profoundly moving.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: C+ --
Spielberg may not have been the best choice to direct this feminist text, making a clean, neat movie that lacks authenticity, but the movie has many touching moments and the entire female ensemble is good, particularly Whoopi Goldberg in the second half
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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.