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The big screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene.
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A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
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A mechanic falls in love with his attorney.
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Two families from different walks of life learn to work together.
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An ambitious married woman's temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness, and forever alters the course of her life.
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Mischievous grandma Madea lands in jail, where she meets a variety of mixed-up characters.
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The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world.
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Plot Synopsis
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Many voices. One poem.
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Rated R for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language
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Release Date:
5 November 2010 (USA)
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Also Known As:
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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Box Office
Budget:
$21,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$19,497,324,
7 November 2010
Gross USA:
$37,729,698
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$37,747,016
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia
Mariah Carey was cast as Tangie, but dropped out when she learned she was pregnant.
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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.
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Quotes
Juanita:
Frank, open the door! I know you're in there! You got a woman in there? Fine, I am sick of your mess! Without any assistance or guidance from you, I have loved you assiduously for 8 months, 2 weeks, and a day. I been stood up 4 times, left 7 packages on your doorstep, 40 poems, 2 plants, 3 handmade notecards, and I had to leave town to send them. You call at 3 am in the morning on weekdays... charming, charming! But you have been of NO assistance! I want you to know what this has been an ...
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Settle
Written by Kevin Arline,
Anthony Crawford (as Anthony Shep Crawford), Kenya Ivey, Tavia Ivey,
Montell Jordan, Jimmy Russell and Antonio Santiago
Performed by
Gladys Knight
Published by K Boogie Productions (ASCAP), Shep & Shep Music/Rondor-Universal Publishing (ASCAP), Kenyakeys Music (ASCAP), Tavia Joker Ivey Music (ASCAP), SydSkyCruz Publishing adm. by Bicycle Music (ASCAP), Professor Funk Music (ASCAP) and PM45productions (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Dream Merchant 21 and Shakeji, Inc.
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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