Something went wrong
Try again later.
For Colored Girls
For Colored Girls depicts the interconnected lives of nine women, exploring their lives and struggles as women of color in a vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves.
9 January 1974, Savannah, Georgia, USA
22 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
4 June 1979, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
31 January 1977, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 August 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 November 1972, Westminster, London, England, UK
July 14, 2011
Tyler Perry movies certainly have their place in society, as they undoubtedly have a strong moral core and are made with noble intentions. On the evidence of For Colored Girls though, he should leave the serious drama alone.
November 05, 2010
Shange's words retain their power despite the melodramatic incidents Perry has woven to fill in the spaces between poems, his flat, TV-style direction and the highly variable performances of an all-star cast.
November 05, 2010
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.
February 06, 2012
Perry's awkwardly constructed screenplay and equally muddled direction is one 'metaphysical dilemma' not even these strong, and strongly gifted, women can conquer.
January 06, 2013
"For Colored Girls" features a lot of heartache and pain, but lacks any sense of purpose. It sacrifices depth for despair and suffers because of it.
February 01, 2013
Perry aims high, and doesn't embarrass himself in tackling this iconic but dated play.
November 08, 2010
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...
February 25, 2012
Best" and "worst", "good" and "bad" are judgment calls that seem unusually difficult to apply here... [Tyler Perry's] strangest and most endlessly fascinating film.
November 05, 2010
Ham-handed, obvious, overblown and pretentious, For Colored Girls is a plain disaster.
November 05, 2010
Perry gets points for persistence, yes, and for ambition. But that's not enuf.
November 19, 2010
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.
May 03, 2015
And yet the film remains strangely watchable, even when it's gone bonkers. Especially when it's gone bonkers.