Rent The Color Purple (1985)
3.7 of 5 from 168 ratings
2h 28min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Celie. "Mr." Sofia (Oprah Winfrey). Nettie (Akosua Busia). Shug (Margaret Avery). The unforgettable characters of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize novel brighten the screen in this rhapsodically cinematic adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. At the center of the tale is Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), whose search for fulfillment in a world closed to her becomes a triumph of cruelty overcome by love, of pain eclipsed by joy.
- Actors:
- Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Willard E. Pugh, Akosua Busia, Desreta Jackson, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Dana Ivey, Leonard Jackson, Bennet Guillory, John Patton Jr., Carl Anderson, Susan Beaubian, James Tillis, Phillip Strong, Laurence Fishburne, Peto Kinsaka, Lelo Masamba
- Directors:
- Steven Spielberg
- Producers:
- Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones
- Writers:
- Alice Walker, Menno Meyjes
- Others:
- Lionel Richie, Allen Daviau, Andraé Crouch, Randy Kerber, Chris Boardman, Menno Mayjes, Jerry Hey, Linda DeScenna, Jack Hayes, Jorge Calandrelli, Aggie Guerard Rodgers, J. Michael Riva, Robert W. Welch, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Ken Chase
- Aka:
- Moon Song
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Lesbian Cinema, Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, Dancing Queens: Guide to the Musical Films That'll, Films & TV by topic, Films by Genre, Introducing the EGOT Crowd, Memory Lane: Films Set in 1920s, Oscar Nominations Competition 2023, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Best Picture Follow-Ups, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 31/01/2011
- Run Time:
- 154 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 1.0, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, Polish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Conversations with the ancestors: The color purple from book to screen
- A collaboration of spirits: Casting and acting The color purple
- The color purple: The musical cultivating a classic: The making of The color purple
- Behind-the-scenes
- Cast-focused featurette
- Galleries
- Theatrical trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/12/2023
- Run Time:
- 154 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Czech Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Parisian Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Chinese, Complex Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French Parisian, German Hard of Hearing, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Conversations with the Ancestors: 'The Color Purple' from Book to Screen
- A Collaboration of Spirits: Casting and Acting 'The Color Purple'
- Cultivating a Classic: The Making of 'The Color Purple'
- The Color Purple: The Musical
- Theatrical Trailers
