For Colored Girls (DVD)

In 1974, Ntozake Shange's choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf made its stage debut. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange's poems into a contemporary narrative. For Colored Girls weaves together the stories of nine different women as they move into and out of one another's existences
some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding.

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