Nyla is being interrogated by Renee and Kelly, and gives them and Alice a vivid detail of her abortion ("Abortion Cycle #1"). "[11] In reference to the film post-production, she stated, "I think he did a very fine job, although I'm not sure I would call it a finished film."[11]. "[28] Dargis states that "working with fine performers like Ms. Elise, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad and Kerry Washington, he sings the song the way he likes it—with force, feeling and tremendous sincerity. Tangie relishes in the fact that Nyla is not so perfect after all and that Alice will hate her the way she hates Tangie. The couple then get into an argument about Carl investing into a failed company with Jo's money, which Carl did because he felt emasculated as a man, who is not providing and forfeiting his right to do anything in favor of submitting to Jo's will. The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world. Alice confronts Tangie in her apartment and after a physical altercation, they reveal to each other that Tangie was raped by her grandfather, Alice's father, causing Alice to take her to the abortionist where Alice supervised her, whereas Nyla was unsupervised. For Colored Girls (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. 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. A weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem. Jo confronts Carl on his homosexuality, which he angrily denies at first but Jo tells him that she was not oblivious to the way Carl looks at other men. First of all, the play is not something that can be easily rendered into a movie. The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Alice goes out to raise money, and encounters Yasmine, who gives her a little money. FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women – Joanna, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice – as they move into and out of one another’s existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. £18.60 Lost in Language & Sound: Or How I Found My Way to the Arts: Essays. Alice gives Nyla the feeble amount of money she made, under the belief that it is for Nyla's college application fees. The 1977 Broadway production was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and won acting accolades for Trazana Bevreley. But the connective tissue that links the various stories ... amounts to a college course in black social pathology—or perhaps just human pathology. [4][5] It is the first film to be produced by 34th Street Films, an imprint of Tyler Perry Studios, and distributed by Lionsgate Films. At Nyla's going away party, all the women gather to celebrate. The summit aims to empower and equip women of color across the landscape of their professional careers and personal lives. The hackneyed melodramas get him from one poem to the next but run roughshod over the collective sense of who these women are. A mechanic falls in love with his attorney. [9] In an October 2010 press conference with the cast, Perry credited his full body of work for being able to make the film, stating, "It took everything—Madea, House of Payne and all of that—for me to be able to do For Colored Girls. Written, directed, and `` lady in yellow '' ) downtown Manhattan brownstone as Crystal out... 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