For Colored Girls

For Colored Girls

Janet Jackson is Jo in FOR COLORED GIRLS. Photo credit: Quantrell Colbert.

For Colored Girls

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For Colored Girls (2010)

Also Known As: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Opened: 11/05/2010 Wide

Wide11/05/2010
AMC Empire 2511/05/2010 - 12/16/201042 days
AMC Loews Meth...11/05/2010 - 11/23/201019 days
Clearview Chel...11/05/2010 - 11/23/201019 days
Arclight/Holly...11/05/2010 - 11/18/201014 days
Showcase Cinem...11/05/2010 - 11/18/201014 days
AMC Deer Valley11/05/2010 - 11/18/201014 days
DVD02/08/2011

Trailer: Click for trailer

Genre: Drama

Rated: R for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language.

Synopsis

In 1974, Ntozake Shange's choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange's "colored girls" evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange's poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color - and a woman of any color - in this world.

FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women -- Jo, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice -- as they move into and out of one another's existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding. Each will speak her truth as never before. And each will know that she is complete as a human being, glorious and divine in all her colors.

Lionsgate and TPS present a 34th Street Films / Lionsgate production. FOR COLORED GIRLS stars Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. FOR COLORED GIRLS is written for the screen and directed by Tyler Perry, and based on the stage play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf' written by Ntozake Shange. The film is produced by Tyler Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb.

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