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For Colored Girls
| Theatrical release date: |
November 5, 2010 (US) |
| Running time: |
134 minutes |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Distributed by: |
Lionsgate |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| Directed by: |
Tyler Perry |
| Produced by: |
Tyler Perry
Reuben Cannon |
| Written by: |
Tyler Perry (screenplay) |
| Music by: |
Aaron Zigman |
| Cinematography by: |
Alexander Gruszynski |
| Editing by: |
Maysie Hoy |
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Kimberly Elise.....................................................................Crystal / Brown
Janet Jackson........................................................................Joanna / Red
Loretta Devine......................................................................Juanita / Green
Thandie Newton..................................................................Tangie / Orange
Anika Noni Rose...............................................................Yasmine / Yellow
Kerry Washington.....................................................................Kelly / Blue
Tessa Thompson.....................................................................Nyla / Purple
Phylicia Rashad.................................................................................Gilda
Whoopi Goldberg....................................................................Alice / White
Macy Gray.........................................................................................Rose
Michael Ealy.............................................................................Beau Willie
Omari Hardwick...................................................................................Carl
Richard Lawson.................................................................................Frank
Hill Harper.......................................................................................Donald
Khalil Kain............................................................................................Bill |
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Plot: |
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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 – Joanna, 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. |
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Box office: |
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Opening week U.S. box office gross: #3 @ $20.1 million
Total U.S. box office gross: $37.5 million |
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Soundtrack: |
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Buy it: CD
1. "Main Title" by Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington with Joshua Bell, Aaron Zigman & The Hollywood Studio
2. "Longer & Stronger" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
3. "All Day Long (Blue Skies)" by Estelle
4. "What More Can They Do" by Laura Izibor
5. "Sun" by Lalah Hathaway
6. "Ansomnia" by Zaki Ibrahim
7. "Settle" by Gladys Knight
8. "La Donna In Viola" by Karen Slack, Andrea Jones-Sojola & The Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra
9. "Sechita (A Senhora Em Amarelo)" by Anika Noni Rose & Carondelet Percussion Ensemble
10. "Stand Up" by Macy Gray
11. "Without A Fight" by Janelle Monae
12. "Four Women" by Nina Simone, Simone, Laura Izibor & Ledisi
13. "I Know Who I Am" by Leona Lewis
14. "Main Title (Instrumental)" by Joshua Bell & Aaron Zigman
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