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COLORED GIRLS |
Year: 2010
USA: Lionsgate
UK: Lionsgate UK
Cast: Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly
Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad,
Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg,
Macy Gray, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson, Rayna Tharani, Jaycee
Williams, Thomas "Deuce" Jessup, May Zayan, John Crow
Director: Tyler Perry
Country: USA
USA: 120 mins
UK: 133 mins
USA Rated: R for some disturbing violence including a rape,
sexual content and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, violence and one
scene of sexual violence
USA Release Date: 5 November 2010
UK Release Date: 10 December 2010 (Limited Release)
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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.
The film interlaces 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.
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