The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
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Actor: Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Willard E. PughDirector: Steven Spielberg
Brand: Warner Brothers
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 (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Here's all you have to know about the movie
Summary: 1 Stars
To understand the film and the book all you have to know is:
Black women--Perfect
Women--OK
Black men--Subpar
White men--The devil incarnate
What can I say--cardboard characters who's main goal is to pass us a MESSAGE.
Read Alice Walker's daughter's book to better understand how the mind of this bitter woman with an agenda operates.
Summary of The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The life and trials of a young african american woman Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/04/2003 Starring: Rae Dawn Chong Daniel Glover Run time: 154 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Steven SpielbergSteven 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 Emerson
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