The Color Purple
by Steven Spielberg
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Actor: Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Willard E. PughDirector: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Carole Isenberg
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Jon Peters
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Peter Guber
Writer: Alice Walker
Writer: Menno Meyjes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-03-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of The Color Purple
Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film controversial, but also a popular hit. You can argue with the appropriateness of Spielberg's decision, but his astonishing facility with images is undeniable--from the exhilarating and eye-popping opening shots of children playing in paradisiacal purple fields to the way he conveys the brutality of a rape by showing hanging leather belts banging against the head of the shaking bed. In a way it's a shame that Whoopi Goldberg, a stage monologist who made her screen debut in this movie, went on to become so famous, because it was, in part, her unfamiliarity that made her understated performance as Celie so effective. (This may be the first and last time that the adjective understated can be applied to Goldberg.) Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including best picture and actress (supporting players Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery were also nominated), it was quite a scandal--and a crushing blow to Spielberg--when it won none. --Jim EmersonSimilar DVD Movies
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