For Colored Girls 2010

For Colored Girls

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Tyler Perry has assembled a fine cast for this adaptation of the 1975 play, and his heart is obviously in the right place, but his fondness for melodrama cheapens a meaningful story.

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Movie Info

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 existence as an abused lover. Jo (Janet Jackson) is a successful magazine editor, but her husband has a secret double life. Juanita (Loretta Devine) is a relationship counselor but cannot seem to get her love life in order. These three and others become bound together by their experiences.
  • Rating:
    R (Language|A Rape|Sexual Content|Some Disturbing Violence)
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Tyler Perry
  • Producer:
    Ozzie Areu, Roger M. Bobb, Paul Hall
  • Writer:
    Tyler Perry
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     wide
  • Release Date (Streaming):
  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $37.7M
  • Runtime:
  • Production Co:
    Lionsgate Films
  • Sound Mix:
    SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

Cast & Crew

Kimberly Elise
Crystal, Brown
Janet Jackson
Jo, 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
Tyler Perry
Director
Tyler Perry
Screenwriter
Ozzie Areu
Producer
Roger M. Bobb
Producer
Paul Hall
Producer
Ozzie Areu
Executive Producer
Joseph P. Genier
Executive Producer
Nzingha Stewart
Executive Producer
Michael Paseornek
Executive Producer
Alexander Gruszynski
Cinematographer
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Critic Reviews for For Colored Girls

All Critics (109) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (74)

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    November 16, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Trevor Johnston

    Time Out
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  • Perry crafts poorly paced soap opera, playing out in the most obvious and crass manner possible the situations that the poems subtly dance around. Shange's original text...

    December 9, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

    Phelim O'Neill

    Guardian
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  • Perry has assembled a formidable ensemble, including Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad and, in the most searing cameo, Macy Gray.

    November 19, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…

    Peter Rainer

    Christian Science Monitor
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  • For Colored Girls is so shamelessly terrible it would make a great midnight hoot-fest, if you had the stomach to laugh at Shange or some of the best (and most underused) actresses of their generation...

    November 8, 2010 | Full Review…

    David Edelstein

    New York Magazine/Vulture
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  • Ham-handed, obvious, overblown and pretentious, For Colored Girls is a plain disaster.

    November 5, 2010 | Full Review…

    Tom Long

    Detroit News
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  • Director Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls is a bold example of an artist's reach exceeding his grasp. And it's hard not to applaud his determination and grade for ambition.

    November 5, 2010 | Rating: 3/4

    Lisa Kennedy

    Denver Post
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Audience Reviews for For Colored Girls

  • Dec 02, 2011
    For Colored Girls is another melodrama from Tyler Perry but in many ways he has changed with this film. Its story and characters would be perfect if Perry did not focus on making it just African-Americans, I will never get over that he believes only black people have issues. The cast is phenomenal, this may be the best cast I hve seen in a Tyler Perry film and I believe there should have been an Oscar nomination for at least one performance in this film. This movie focuses so much on the drama and not enough on its essense, and with all these different characters it was hard to follow and love the film. The movie is decent, and I could tell Tyler Perry put his heart into it, but the story sadly makes it fall short.
    Bradley W Super Reviewer
  • Sep 20, 2011
    I enjoyed the plot and how all of the stories came together...it reminded me a little of "Crash". However, It lost me when the scenes turned into a poetry monologue. I could do without that.
    Sarah P Super Reviewer
  • Apr 28, 2011
    A shockingly compelling melodrama, color me surprised. It really shouldn't have worked, what with all the turgid descents into poetry and blatant attempts to get us to cry, but it made me cry nevertheless. My favorite storyline was definitely Thandie Newton's, as the feral Tangie.
    Jennifer X Super Reviewer
  • Feb 25, 2011
    Tragic, terrifying and beautifully poetic. âFor Colored Girlsâ? is a poetically woven tragedy about the trials and struggles of black women. The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Whoopi Goldberg, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad and the entire cast give remarkable emotionally powerful and moving performances. This movie will rub some people the wrong way. It is different in style and approach, and very graphic, blatant and shocking. Yes a lot happens and yes there is a deliberate urgency here and I say, so what? What better time for deliberate urgency then when the subject is so relevant?
    Jasen L Super Reviewer
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