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The Color Purple

( Catalog Number 15733 )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

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Original Theatrical Trailer

The Color Purple
1985 - 154 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoopi 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.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing Celie to assume that Nettie is dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage. Alas, Sofia is "humbled" when she is beaten into submission by angry whites. Later, Celie is able to forge a strong friendship with Albert's mistress Shug (Margaret Avery). Emboldened by this, Celie begins rifling through her husband's belongings and finds Nettie's letters. Able at last to stand up to her husband, Celie leaves him to search for a new life on her own. A major box-office hit, The Color Purple was nominated for eleven Oscars. The film was co-produced by Quincy Jones, who also wrote the score. --- Hal Erickson

Steven Spielberg's first cinematic attempt to delve deeper than escapism produced a rich, heartfelt epic that matched the Pulitzer Prize-winning credentials of Alice Walker's novel, receiving 11 Oscar nominations but famously winning none of them. The Color Purple is a triumph of all elements of production design, nominated for its screenplay, cinematography, makeup, costumes, art direction, score, and three of its actresses --- though not for director Spielberg. The snub may have helped push him as an artist toward such prestigious works as Schindler's List. One would hardly guess Whoopi Goldberg's roots were in comedy, given the layered dramatic performance she offers in her first real screen role. Oprah Winfrey (also debuting) and Margaret Avery are the other two-thirds of the heart-breaking dynamic between three black women in Spielberg's brutal world of racial and sexual prejudice. Even Danny Glover's role shows late-blooming sympathy, however agonizingly wrought, which demonstrates the dimension of Menno Meyjes' script. There's nothing simple about this early 20th century South, populated by characters paralyzed by the roles ascribed to them, and wickedly punished when they try to venture beyond their bounds. It boils the blood at the same time that it touches the soul, making for genuinely tear-soaked cinema with a visceral emotional payoff. --- Derek Armstrong

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Cast for The Color Purple

Danny Glover - Albert
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia
Willard E. Pugh - Harpo
Akosua Busia - Nettie
Desreta Jackson - Young Celie
Adolph Caesar - Old Mister
Dana Ivey - Miss Millie
Jeris Poindexter - Jook Joint Patron
Juliet Poe - Church Sister
John Patton, Jr. - Preacher
Maurice Moore - Child
Carrie Murray - Loretta
Daphaine Oliver - Young Olivia
April Myers - Emma
Lelo Masamba - Olivia
David Thomas - Road Gang Leader
Ethel Taylor - Church Sister
James Tillis - Buster
Arnold Turner - Jook Joint Patron
Leon Rippy - Store Clerk
Job Seda
Phillip Strong - Mayor
Katie Simon - Church Sister
Howard Starr - Young Harpo
Susan Beaubian - Corrine
Lillian Njoki Distefano - Young Tashi
Marcus Covington - Boy
Jo Ann Doster
Laurence Fishburne - Swain
Margaret Freeman - Odessa
Drew Bundi Brown - Jook Joint Patron
Rae Dawn Chong - Squeak
Donna Buie - Daisy
Reuben Cannon
Marcus Liles - Boo
Jadili Johnson - Young Adam
Hawthorne James - Jook Joint Patron
Peto Kinsaka - Adam
Lechanda Lathrap - Child
Clarance Avant
Carl Anderson - Reverend Samuel
Leonard Jackson - Pa
Bennet Guillory - Grady
John Hart - Mailman

Crew for The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg - Director / Producer
Peter Guber - Producer
Quincy Jones - Producer / Composer (Music Score)
Kathleen Kennedy - Producer
Frank Marshall - Producer
Jon Peters - Producer
Menno Meyjes - Screenwriter
Alice Walker - Book Author
Allen Daviau - Cinematographer
Chris Boardman - Composer (Music Score)
Andrae Crouch - Composer (Music Score)
Jack Hayes - Composer (Music Score)
Jerry Hey - Composer (Music Score)
Randy Kerber - Composer (Music Score)
Lionel Richie - Songwriter
Joel Rosenbaum - Composer (Music Score)
Fred Steiner - Composer (Music Score)
Rod Temperton - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kahn - Editor
Gerald R. Molen - Production Designer
J. Michael Riva - Production Designer
Robert W. Welch III - Production Designer
Carole Isenberg - Associate Producer
Linda de Scenna - Set Designer
Tom McCown - Set Designer
Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer
Richard Alonzo - Makeup
Steve LaPorte - Makeup
Michael Laudati - Makeup
Greg W. Elam - Stunts
Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor

Awards for The Color Purple

Best Actress (nom) Whoopi Goldberg 1985 Academy
Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) Menno Meyjes 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) J. Michael Riva 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Linda de Scenna 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Robert W. Welch III 1985 Academy
Best Cinematography (nom) Allen Daviau 1985 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Aggie Guerard Rodgers 1985 Academy
Best Makeup (nom) Ken Chase 1985 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jerry Hey 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Joel Rosenbaum 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Rod Temperton 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Randy Kerber 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Fred Steiner 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Quincy Jones 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jeremy Lubbock 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Calandrelli, Jorge 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Semenya, Caiphus 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jack Hayes 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Andrae Crouch 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Chris Boardman 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Rod Temperton 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Quincy Jones 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Lionel Richie 1985 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Oprah Winfrey 1985 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Margaret Avery 1985 Academy
Best Director Steven Spielberg 1985 Directors Guild of America
10 Best Films 1985 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actress (win) 1985 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Adaptation (nom) Menno Meyjes 1986 British Academy Awards
Best Actress (Drama) (win) Whoopi Goldberg 1986 Golden Globe
Best Actress (in Drama) (win) 1986 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: The Color Purple
Feature Release Date: 1985
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
Color: Color
Runtime: 154 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

Catalog Number: 15733
UPC: 085391573364
Manufacturer: Pioneer Japan
Publisher: Warner Home Video

Sides: 3
Cover: Jacket
Sound Analog Right: Dolby Digital 5.1
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 15733-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg & Oprah Winfrey in...Steven Spielberg's...

The Color Purple

( Catalog Number 15733 )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer

The Color Purple
1985 - 154 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoopi 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.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing Celie to assume that Nettie is dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage. Alas, Sofia is "humbled" when she is beaten into submission by angry whites. Later, Celie is able to forge a strong friendship with Albert's mistress Shug (Margaret Avery). Emboldened by this, Celie begins rifling through her husband's belongings and finds Nettie's letters. Able at last to stand up to her husband, Celie leaves him to search for a new life on her own. A major box-office hit, The Color Purple was nominated for eleven Oscars. The film was co-produced by Quincy Jones, who also wrote the score. --- Hal Erickson

Steven Spielberg's first cinematic attempt to delve deeper than escapism produced a rich, heartfelt epic that matched the Pulitzer Prize-winning credentials of Alice Walker's novel, receiving 11 Oscar nominations but famously winning none of them. The Color Purple is a triumph of all elements of production design, nominated for its screenplay, cinematography, makeup, costumes, art direction, score, and three of its actresses --- though not for director Spielberg. The snub may have helped push him as an artist toward such prestigious works as Schindler's List. One would hardly guess Whoopi Goldberg's roots were in comedy, given the layered dramatic performance she offers in her first real screen role. Oprah Winfrey (also debuting) and Margaret Avery are the other two-thirds of the heart-breaking dynamic between three black women in Spielberg's brutal world of racial and sexual prejudice. Even Danny Glover's role shows late-blooming sympathy, however agonizingly wrought, which demonstrates the dimension of Menno Meyjes' script. There's nothing simple about this early 20th century South, populated by characters paralyzed by the roles ascribed to them, and wickedly punished when they try to venture beyond their bounds. It boils the blood at the same time that it touches the soul, making for genuinely tear-soaked cinema with a visceral emotional payoff. --- Derek Armstrong

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Cast for The Color Purple

Danny Glover - Albert
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia
Willard E. Pugh - Harpo
Akosua Busia - Nettie
Desreta Jackson - Young Celie
Adolph Caesar - Old Mister
Dana Ivey - Miss Millie
Jeris Poindexter - Jook Joint Patron
Juliet Poe - Church Sister
John Patton, Jr. - Preacher
Maurice Moore - Child
Carrie Murray - Loretta
Daphaine Oliver - Young Olivia
April Myers - Emma
Lelo Masamba - Olivia
David Thomas - Road Gang Leader
Ethel Taylor - Church Sister
James Tillis - Buster
Arnold Turner - Jook Joint Patron
Leon Rippy - Store Clerk
Job Seda
Phillip Strong - Mayor
Katie Simon - Church Sister
Howard Starr - Young Harpo
Susan Beaubian - Corrine
Lillian Njoki Distefano - Young Tashi
Marcus Covington - Boy
Jo Ann Doster
Laurence Fishburne - Swain
Margaret Freeman - Odessa
Drew Bundi Brown - Jook Joint Patron
Rae Dawn Chong - Squeak
Donna Buie - Daisy
Reuben Cannon
Marcus Liles - Boo
Jadili Johnson - Young Adam
Hawthorne James - Jook Joint Patron
Peto Kinsaka - Adam
Lechanda Lathrap - Child
Clarance Avant
Carl Anderson - Reverend Samuel
Leonard Jackson - Pa
Bennet Guillory - Grady
John Hart - Mailman

Crew for The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg - Director / Producer
Peter Guber - Producer
Quincy Jones - Producer / Composer (Music Score)
Kathleen Kennedy - Producer
Frank Marshall - Producer
Jon Peters - Producer
Menno Meyjes - Screenwriter
Alice Walker - Book Author
Allen Daviau - Cinematographer
Chris Boardman - Composer (Music Score)
Andrae Crouch - Composer (Music Score)
Jack Hayes - Composer (Music Score)
Jerry Hey - Composer (Music Score)
Randy Kerber - Composer (Music Score)
Lionel Richie - Songwriter
Joel Rosenbaum - Composer (Music Score)
Fred Steiner - Composer (Music Score)
Rod Temperton - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kahn - Editor
Gerald R. Molen - Production Designer
J. Michael Riva - Production Designer
Robert W. Welch III - Production Designer
Carole Isenberg - Associate Producer
Linda de Scenna - Set Designer
Tom McCown - Set Designer
Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer
Richard Alonzo - Makeup
Steve LaPorte - Makeup
Michael Laudati - Makeup
Greg W. Elam - Stunts
Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor

Awards for The Color Purple

Best Actress (nom) Whoopi Goldberg 1985 Academy
Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) Menno Meyjes 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) J. Michael Riva 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Linda de Scenna 1985 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Robert W. Welch III 1985 Academy
Best Cinematography (nom) Allen Daviau 1985 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Aggie Guerard Rodgers 1985 Academy
Best Makeup (nom) Ken Chase 1985 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jerry Hey 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Joel Rosenbaum 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Rod Temperton 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Randy Kerber 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Fred Steiner 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Quincy Jones 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jeremy Lubbock 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Calandrelli, Jorge 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Semenya, Caiphus 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Jack Hayes 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Andrae Crouch 1985 Academy
Best Score (nom) Chris Boardman 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Rod Temperton 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Quincy Jones 1985 Academy
Best Song (nom) Lionel Richie 1985 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Oprah Winfrey 1985 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Margaret Avery 1985 Academy
Best Director Steven Spielberg 1985 Directors Guild of America
10 Best Films 1985 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actress (win) 1985 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Adaptation (nom) Menno Meyjes 1986 British Academy Awards
Best Actress (Drama) (win) Whoopi Goldberg 1986 Golden Globe
Best Actress (in Drama) (win) 1986 Golden Globe

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