For Colored Girls (Blu-ray) R
Many voices. One poem.
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For Colored Girls
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Thandiwe Newton, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Tessa Thompson & Macy Gray | |
Performer: | Michael Ealy, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Khalil Kain & Richard Lawson | |
Directed by | Tyler Perry | |
Edited by | Maysie Hoy | |
Screenplay by | Tyler Perry | |
Composition by | Aaron Zigman | |
Produced by | Tyler Perry | |
Director of Photography: | Alexander Gruszynski | |
Executive Production by | Nzingha Stewart |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
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.
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Christian Science Monitor
And yet the film remains strangely watchable, even when it's gone bonkers. Especially when it's gone bonkers.
Philadelphia Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Perry aims high, and doesn't embarrass himself in tackling this iconic but dated play.
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Movie Nation
Perry weaves together not just the individual stories but their arcs, sustaining the emotional tenor across the progress of nine lives.
Movieline
Ham-handed, obvious, overblown and pretentious, For Colored Girls is a plain disaster.
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Detroit News
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
Denver Post
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...
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Product Description:
Ntozake Shange’s 1970s stage classic, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, is brought to the screen in this adaptation.