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For Colored Girls

Year:
Duration:
USA:133 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
5.9
Director:
Tyler Perry
Awards:
13 wins & 16 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2010-11-05
Filming Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $19,497,324 (USA) (7 November 2010)
Gross: $37,721,949 (USA) (16 January 2011)
Cast
Actor
Character
Kimberly Elise
Crystal
Janet Jackson
Jo
Loretta Devine
Juanita
Thandie Newton
Tangie
Anika Noni Rose
Yasmine
Kerry Washington
Kelly
Tessa Thompson
Nyla
Phylicia Rashad
Gilda
Whoopi Goldberg
Alice
Macy Gray
Rose
Michael Ealy
Beau Willie
Omari Hardwick
Carl
Richard Lawson
Frank
Hill Harper
Donald
Khalil Kain
Bill
Rayna Tharani
Renee
Jaycee Williams
Kenya
Thomas 'Deuce' Jessup
Kwame
May Zayan
Katina
John Crow
Dr. Davis
Michael Cory Davis
Man #1
Jason Graham
Man #2
Ayo Sorrells
Man #4
Kendrick Cross
Man #5
Joe Amato
Driver
Ambrya Underwood
Girl #1
Jackie Prucha
Nurse
Holly Crawshaw
Waitress
Roevely Rancell
Nurse
David Feigenbaum
Security Guard
Karen Slack
Soprano #1
Andrea Jones-Sojola
Soprano #2
Jeanette Illidge
Soprano #3
Haji Abdullah
Graduation Audience Member (uncredited)
Sidney Baxley
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Tim Blanchard
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Kate Caldwell
Audience Member (uncredited)
Gregory R. Campbell
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Frances Cobb
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Michael L. Covington
Parent at Graduation (uncredited)
Lee Darnell
Orderly Roberts
Curtis Gammage
Opera Patron (uncredited)
TJ Hassan
Bill #2
Walter Hendrix III
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Barry Hopkins
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Eli Jones
Convict
Key Jones
Nurse
Andrew R. Kaplan
College Professor (uncredited)
Kenn
Michel (uncredited)
Eric Lovett
Opera Member (uncredited)
Thina Lowe
Graduation Patron (uncredited)
Todd Maynor
Police Officer (uncredited)
Ken Melde
Board Room Member (uncredited)
Deidre D. Mosely
Partygoer (uncredited)
Donald Norris Jr.
Opera Audience Member and Graduation Audience Member (uncredited)
William Palmer Jr.
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Karissa Parran
Opera Guest (uncredited)
Elizabeth Pistolis
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Al G. Sillah
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Jill St. Williams
Extra - Opera Scene (uncredited)
Latika Sye
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Joshua Tanksley
Student
Indi Tyton
Opera Scene (uncredited)
Summer Valentine
Girl jumping rope (uncredited)
Steve Warren
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Wayne Webb
Doctor (uncredited)
Natasha A. Williams
Drug User (uncredited)
Bri Wright
Opera Patron (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The Broadway (New York City) production opened at the Boothe Theater on September 15, 1976, ran for 742 performances closing on July 16, 1978 and was nominated for the 1977 Tony Award for Best Play.
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The trailer for the film is scored with a cover of Nina Simone's 1966 song "Four Women", which (like the play this movie is based on) tells the stories of several African American women who have had to deal with societal ills caused by the legacies of slavery and racism.
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Mariah Carey was cast as Tangie, but dropped out when she learned she was pregnant.
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Goofs
When Yasmine goes to the morgue to identify Bill's body, you can see him breathing throughout the scene.
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Quotes
Tangie: You can't love somebody with that much hurt in them. I'm learning that more and more. I don't know what's wrong with me. My dependency on other human beings for love. I survive on intimacy, and tomorrow that's all I've got going. It's all I've got!
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Gilda: Sleeping with all these men, thinking it's just sex. It ain't just sex, honey. It all has a root. And you got to find that root to pluck it. He placed the rose behind your ear, now cry yourself to sleep. I used to be you.
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Juanita: [enters the office] Hi! I'm Juanita Sims, and I'm so glad
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Faq
Q
What is the meaning of the original title, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf?"
A
The story is focused around eight women who relate their lives through a series of poems. The first part of the title comes from the fact that not only are the women colored because they're African American, but that each of the pain that they've been through is represented by a color. Because of their specific ordeals, each of them have viewed death or suicide as a way out of their situation. This comes to an end in the last scene in the play, where the women gather together for a laying on of hands. They collectively realize that their strength, amid their flaws and differences, comes from something greater than themselves.The second part of the title, "The Rainbow Is Enuf," symbolizes their unity because, collectively, they are a rainbow. A rainbow is symbolic of God's covenant/promise with His people, and most importantly, rainbows only come after storms. Each of the women realize that it is through God's power that each of them have survived and they can now put their pain and past hurts behind them, and move forward. As the last lines in the play state: "I found God within myself, and I loved Her fiercely. And this is for colored girls who have considered suicide, but are now moving to the ends of their own rainbows."
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