Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
film
FilmDVD

Title Alex Haley's Queen / An Elliot Friedgen & Co, Inc. production of the Wolper Organization in association with Bernard Sofronski ; produced by Mark M. Wolper ; written for television by David Stevens ; directed by John Erman.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2008.
1992.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  TV DVD QUE DISCS 1-2    Check Shelf
 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - TV-DVD  TV DVD QUE Disc 1-2    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD QUEEN DISC 1    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD QUEEN DISC 2    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD QUEEN DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  DVD SERIES QUEEN DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD QUEEN DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, standard presentation; Dolby Digital.
Cast Ann-Margret, Halle Berry, Dan Biggers, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis, Victor Garber, Danny Glover, Tim Guinee, Jasmine Guy, Jane Krakowski, Patrick Malone, Martin Sheen, Madge Sinclair, Paul Winfield.
Credits Film editors, James Galloway, Paul LaMastra ; costume designer, Helen Butler-Barbon.
Note Based upon the story by Alex Haley.
Originally produced for television in 1992.
Summary The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
Audience Not rated.
Awards Emmy Awards, 1993: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special (Linda De Andrea).
Image Awards, 1995: Image Award - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series (Danny Glover) ; Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series (Halle Berry) ; Outstanding Television Movie or Mini-series.
Language English dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Haley, Alex -- Family -- Drama.
Patrilineal kinship -- Drama.
Racially mixed people -- Southern States -- Drama.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Genre/Form Television movies.
Biographical television programs.
Added Author Sofronski, Bernard.
Stevens, David, 1940-2018
Erman, John, 1935-2021
Ann-Margret, 1941-
Berry, Halle.
Clarkson, Patricia.
Daly, Tim, 1956-
Davis, Ossie.
Garber, Victor.
Glover, Danny.
Guinee, Tim.
Guy, Jasmine.
Krakowski, Jane.
Sheen, Martin.
Sinclair, Madge.
Winfield, Paul.
Haley, Alex. Queen.
Wolper Organization.
Warner Bros. Television.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Queen
ISBN 0790776006
9780790776002
Standard No. 883929001026
085392425327
Music No. 1000035543 Warner Home Video
-->
Add a Review