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For Colored Girls Gritty, wound-opening poetry highlights Tyler Perry's gripping, powerful, riveting, well-acted film, which is based on Ntozake Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, that centers on an eclectic group of African-American women in New York City, including an abused executive assistant (Kimberly Elise) trying to raise two children while dealing with an alcoholic lover (Michael Ealy), a high-powered style magazine editor (Janet Jackson) struggling with an unhappy marriage to a man (Omari Hardwick) who is on the down low, a promiscuous bartender (Thandie Newton) failing to constructively handle her angry feelings toward her dance-loving sister (Tessa Thompson) and her zealous hoarding mother (Whoopi Goldberg), a guilt-ridden social worker (Kerry Washington) happily married to a cop (Bill Harper) and dealing with infertility issues, a comely dancer instructor (Anika Noni Rose) who unknowingly allows herself to become close to a rapist (Khalil Kain), a no-nonsense businesswoman (Loretta Devine) running a nonprofit organization and unfortunately looking for love with a married truck driver (Richard Lawson), and a friendly neighbor (Phylicia Rashad) struggling with her own demons.   Redhead: Year: 2010 Rating:  R View For Colored Girls on the Internet Movie Database