For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama movie adapted from Ntozake Shange’s 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The film stars Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington and Phylicia Rashad. The movie was released last November 5, 2010.
The following shows the trailer and the brief synopsis of this film.
Retaining the play’s poetic style, the film’s lead cast consists of eight African-American women, seven of whom are based on the play’s seven characters only known by color (“Lady in Red”, “Lady in Blue”, “Lady in Yellow” etc). Like its source material, each character deals with a different personal conflict, such as love, abandonment, rape, infidelity, and abortion.
Regarding the reception of the film, it received positive response from the viewers and the film even made it to the top ten of the US weekend box office .
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