For Colored Girls

2010

Action / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 106 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 8512 8.5K

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Plot summary

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

Director

Tyler Perry Photo
Tyler Perry

Top cast

Tessa Thompson Photo
Tessa Thompson as Nyla / Purple
Michael Ealy Photo
Michael Ealy as Beau Willie
Whoopi Goldberg Photo
Whoopi Goldberg as Alice / White
Richard Lawson Photo
Richard Lawson as Frank
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1.2 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 9
2.47 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dst121386 7 / 10

Tyler's Best So Far...

Let me start off by saying that I am NOT a fan of Tyler Perry's past movies, television shows, or plays. They are not funny and over the top. Just not my cup of tea. However, I thoroughly found this movie worth the $10.50 I paid to see it on opening night. Some of the other reviews were surprising. At no point did I feel the movie to be slow. In fact, I thought the movie constantly pounded on our emotions to almost a point of exhaustion. I also thought that the prose to fit fairly well with the dialog. There were times when two people were talking at the same time that made it difficult to follow, but I understood the intent and liked the effect. Tyler has made progress in his directing abilities. He still has work to do, but this was by far his best work. I look forward to seeing this movie again.As for the acting...Rashad, Devine, Elise, Newton, and Rose were the standouts. In fact, I cannot see anyone except Loretta Devine in that role now...she owned it! Whoopie is still a superb actress. I agree with many other reviewers, Janet Jackson just does not have it. I question Tyler's judgement in picking Janet for a fairly meaty role. Clearly she patterned much of her part from Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada" and did not pull it off. She looked terrific though! Other seasoned more proved actresses could have done a much better job with that role. Halle, Vivica or even Robin Givens anyone? Bring your tissues. Pay attention. It is a good movie.
Reviewed by cassysim 5 / 10

You're supposed to be commenting on the contents of the movie

This is very much a piece of art. Determining the value of a piece of art is very personal. This movie may speak to some and may bore others to death. This movie needed editing, probably shaving a good 30 minutes off wouldn't have hurt. It has some very powerful scenes and is definitely not a movie to see because you want to just relax and laugh. That being said, I am very disappointed that one poster decided to comment not about the movie but about their own personal prejudices about black women, and probably black people in general. I'd like to point out, that NOT ONE woman in this film was on welfare. NOT ONE woman in this movie was living off "the tax payers" and NOT ONE woman in this film was living on easy street. If you just want to rant about your own personal prejudices then go to one of the political blogs. This is supposed to be an honest discussion about the movie.
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