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For colored girls

Title: For colored girls/ directed by Tyler Perry.
Publication: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2011]

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Description

1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sd., color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.

Uniform Title

For colored girls (Motion picture)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Based on the stage play entitled "For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" written by Ntozake Shange.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.
Special features include: interactive features: Span of the rainbow [interactive documentary]; Prism of poems; Transformation: movie magic making "For Colored Girls" [featurette] (15 min.); Music "For Colored Girls [music videos] (9 min.); Marketing archive: Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Living portraits; Art gallery [slide show]; Also from Lionsgate (4 min.).

Credits (note)

Screenwriter, Tyler Perry ; producers, Roger M. Bobb, Paul Hall, Tyler Perry ; executive producers, Ozzie Areu, Joseph P. Genier, Nzingha Stewart, Michael Paseornek ; cinematographer, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; composer, Aaron Zigman ; production designer, Ina Mayhew ; costume designer, Johnetta Boone ; Lionsgate and TPS present a 34th Street Films/Lionsgate production.

Performer (note)

Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anka Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gray, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson.

Audience (note)

MPAA rating: R; for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language.

System Details (note)

DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX surround; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.78:1).
DVD; Region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX surround; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.78:1).

Terms of Use (note)

VR038815為公播版 ; VR039153為家用版, 僅限外借並不得公開播映

Language (note)

Closed-captioned.
Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1418

LCCN

031398131212

OCLC

694455413

Title

For colored girls/ directed by Tyler Perry.

Imprint

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2011]

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

System Details

DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX surround; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.78:1).

Cast

Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anka Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gray, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson.

Credits

Screenwriter, Tyler Perry ; producers, Roger M. Bobb, Paul Hall, Tyler Perry ; executive producers, Ozzie Areu, Joseph P. Genier, Nzingha Stewart, Michael Paseornek ; cinematographer, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; composer, Aaron Zigman ; production designer, Ina Mayhew ; costume designer, Johnetta Boone ; Lionsgate and TPS present a 34th Street Films/Lionsgate production.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for some disturbing violence including a rape, sexual content and language.

Language

Closed-captioned.

Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

System Details

DVD; Region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX surround; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.78:1).

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Added Author

Jackson, Janet, 1966- actor.

Devine, Loretta, actor.

Ealy, Michael, actor.

Elise, Kimberly, 1971- actor.

Hardwick, Omari, 1974- actor.

Harper, Hill, 1966- actor.

Newton, Thandiwe, 1972- actor.

Rashad, Phylicia, 1948- actor.

Rose, Anika Noni, 1972- actor.

Thompson, Tessa, 1983- actor.

Washington, Kerry, 1977- actor.

Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- actor.

Gray, Macy, actor.

Kain, Khalil, actor.

Lawson, Richard, actor.

Areu, Ozzie, producer.

Genier, Joseph P, producer.

Stewart, Nzingha, producer.

Paseornek, Michael, producer.

Bobb, Roger M., 1967- producer.

Hall, Paul, producer.

Perry, Tyler, film producer.

Perry, Tyler, film director.

Perry, Tyler, screenwriter.

Gruszynski, Alexander, cinematographer.

Hoy, Maysie, film editor.

Zigman, Aaron, composer.

Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.

Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm), production company.

Tyler Perry Studios (Firm), production company.

34th Street Films, production company.

Other Standard Identifier

031398131212

Publisher No.

29591 Lionsgate

29591.1.1A Lionsgate

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1418

NCOX 2527

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