For Colored Girls

aka: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
USA 2010, 133 minutes
Dir. Tyler Perry
Genres: Drama / Girl-centric

Topics: African-American, Stageplay.

Feat. Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandiwe Newton, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, Macy Gray, Tessa Thompson

Aroview: Potent, if melodramatic, adaptation of the acclaimed play that has an extraordinarily diverse cast exploring the lives of nine black women through poetry.

At times unbearably earnest and atonal, with dir. Perry making little effort to free the film from its stage origins, this is still a worthy undertaking and a welcome addition to the small stable of films that examine black female identity.