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For Colored Girls

  • 20102010
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  • 2h 13m
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6.2/10
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Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandiwe Newton, Anika Noni Rose, and Kerry Washington in For Colored Girls (2010)
Trailer for the new movie For Colored Girls, based on the acclaimed stage play and adapted for the screen by Tyler Perry.
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Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
7.9K
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    • Tyler Perry
    • Tyler Perry(screenplay)
    • Ntozake Shange(play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf")
  • Stars
    • Janet Jackson
    • Anika Noni Rose
    • Whoopi Goldberg
    • Tyler Perry
    • Tyler Perry(screenplay)
    • Ntozake Shange(play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf")
  • Stars
    • Janet Jackson
    • Anika Noni Rose
    • Whoopi Goldberg
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    • 85User reviews
    • 71Critic reviews
    • 50Metascore
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    Janet Jackson in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Loretta Devine in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Kimberly Elise and Michael Ealy in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Khalil Kain and Anika Noni Rose in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Tessa Thompson in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Hill Harper and Kerry Washington in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Thandiwe Newton in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Thandiwe Newton and Jason Graham in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Phylicia Rashad in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Whoopi Goldberg and Thandiwe Newton in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Janet Jackson and Omari Hardwick in For Colored Girls (2010)
    Whoopi Goldberg and Tyler Perry in For Colored Girls (2010)

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    • Beau Willie
    Omari Hardwick
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    • Carl
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    • Renee
    Jaycee Williams
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    • Kenya
    Thomas 'Deuce' Jessup
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      • Tyler Perry
      • Tyler Perry(screenplay)
      • Ntozake Shange(play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf")
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    • Trivia
      The first film directed by Tyler Perry to be rated R by the MPAA.
    • Goofs
      When the "Lady in Green", Loretta Devine, does her solo of "Someone took my stuff" because her boyfriend walked out on her; she has on two different green earrings.
    • Quotes

      Yasmine: A rapist doesn't have to be a stranger to be legitimate. Someone you never saw. A man with obvious problems. But if you been public with him, danced one dance, kissed him goodbye lightly with a closed mouth, pressing charges will be as hard as keeping your legs closed while five fools try and run a train on you. These men friends of ours, who smile nicely, take you out to dinner, then lock the door behind you...

    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #19.26 (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      What More Can They Do
      Written and Performed by Laura Izibor

      Published by Imagem (IMRO) and Universal Music Z Songs (BMI)

      Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation

    User reviews85

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    10/10
    Successful Stage to Screen Transfer
    Tyler Perry has performed a little miracle in transferring Ntozake Shange's exquisite play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" into an opened up and expanded film. The dialogue still is deeply embedded in Shange's poetry but the narrative Perry added makes the stage experience a flowing cinematic story: the result is a powerful film that happens to be populated by some of the finest actresses of today.

    The plat cannot be faithfully summarized, as it is a cluster of vignettes of ten women in crisis. Each character is given the name of a color of the rainbow, but they also have real names and the men in their off track lives actually do appear. It would be unfair to single out any one of these actresses as best because their roles are all different and make demands on the actresses in different ways. Whoopie Goldberg is the religiously inclined mother of Thandie Newton (a woman of physical needs that cannot be satisfied despite nightly change of partners) and Tessa Thompson (a high school girl with aspirations crushed by an unwanted pregnancy); Janet Jackson is a bitter, wealthy magazine editor married to the Down Low Omari Hardwick; Loretta Devine is a community service giver in a relationship with the undependable Richard Lawson; Kimberly Elise (breathtakingly magnificent!) is paired with the war-torn PTSD alcoholic and abusive Michael Ealy; Kerry Washington works for child services despite her infertility in her marriage to Hill Harper; Anika Noni Rose is a lovely innocent dance teacher brutally treated by Khalil Kain; Phylicia Rashad is the tenement house manager who is the central mother confessor to her tenants. How these women's lives are interconnected is fascinating as a story/screenplay: how these gifted actresses deliver the poetry of Shange is beyond anyone's expectations.

    There are many issues this film deals with - single mother, violence against women, death, loss, partner abuse, etc - and each of the issues is poignant and keenly defined and acted. How this film slipped under the line for awards is anyone's guess. It is not to be missed.

    Grady Harp
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    • Feb 24, 2011

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      • November 5, 2010 (United States)
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      • Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • Lionsgate
      • Tyler Perry Studios
      • 34th Street Films
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