The Wiz
2008
DVD
Dorothy is a 24-year-old Manhattan kindergarten teacher who is whisked away from her inner-city neighborhood via a snowstorm to the mysterious land of Oz. Oz is a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of New York City.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (135 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Dolby Digital 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
- MPAA rating: G.
Notes:
- Based on the book by William F. Brown ; music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls ; produced on the New York stage by Ken Harper.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.
- Special features: "Wiz on down the road" featurette; theatrical trailer.
- Title from container.
- Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, Dede Allen ; songs, Charlie Smalls ; music adaptation, Quincy Jones ; production and costume designer, Tony Walton ; special visual effects, Albert Whitlock.
- Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in English, French, captions in English, with optional subtitles in French.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 61129468
- 61100348
Control Number: 825173
UPC:
- 025192209147
- 025195002844
Subjects:
- Blizzards -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
- Kindergarten teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
- Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
- Wizard, of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Cohen, Rob, 1949- film producer.
- Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009, actor.
- Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011, film director.
- Motown Productions, production company.
- Ross, Diana, 1944- actor.
- Russell, Nipsey, 1924-2005, actor.
- Schumacher, Joel, 1939-2020, screenwriter.
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
- motion picture adaptation of (work): Brown, William F. (William Ferdinand), 1928-2019. Wiz.