Taglines: Many voices. One poem.
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 is ar American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange’s 1975 stage play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry, the film features an ensemble cast which includes Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashād, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, and Kerry Washington.
For Colored Girls (2010)
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Macy Gray, Richard Lawson, Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Goldberg
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange
Production Design by: Ina Mayhew
Cinematography by: Alexander Gruszynski
Film Editing by: Maysie Hoy
Costume Design by: Johnetta Boone
Set Decoration by: Lance Totten
Art Direction by: Kahlil Bess, Roswell Hamrick, Audrey Soodoo-Raphael
Music by: Aaron Zigman
MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: November 5, 2010