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Nov 5, 2010 · Based on Ntozake Shange's play, the film features 20 women portraying different characters and issues that impact women of color. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
- (8.2K)
- Drama
- Tyler Perry
- 2010-11-05
For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
Sep 16, 2010 · FOR COLORED GIRLS brings to the screen Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning play, a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.
- 2 min
- 661.4K
- Lionsgate Movies
Roger Ebert criticizes Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's play, which features seven women with different problems and colors. He finds the film too literal, cluttered and unconventional for cinema, but praises the cast and the soliloquies.
In New York, a group of black women, most of whom live in the same Harlem apartment building, faces personal crises, heartbreak and other challenges. Crystal (Kimberly Elise) faces an unhappy ...
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- Tyler Perry
- R
- Kimberly Elise
Nov 5, 2010 · Overview. About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. 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.
Filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen; integrating the vivid language of Ntozake Shange's poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color-any color-in this world.
