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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

For colored girls [videorecording] / Lionsgate and TPS present a 34th Street Films/Lionsgate production ; produced by Roger M. Bobb, Paul Hall ; written for the screen, produced and directed by Tyler Perry.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2011]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, 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.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

Shange, Ntozake -- Film adaptations.

African American women -- Drama.

African American women -- Social conditions -- Drama.

African American families -- Social conditions -- Drama.

American fiction -- Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Jackson, Janet, 1966-

Devine, Loretta.

Ealy, Michael.

Elise, Kimberly, 1971-

Hardwick, Omari, 1974-

Harper, Hill, 1966-

Newton, Thandiwe, 1972-

Rashad, Phylicia, 1948-

Rose, Anika Noni, 1972-

Thompson, Tessa, 1983-

Washington, Kerry, 1977-

Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-

Gray, Macy.

Kain, Khalil.

Lawson, Richard, 1947-

Areu, Ozzie.

Genier, Joseph P.

Stewart, Nzingha.

Paseornek, Michael.

Bobb, Roger M., 1967-

Hall, Paul.

Perry, Tyler.

Gruszynski, Alexander.

Hoy, Maysie.

Zigman, Aaron.

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

Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm)

Tyler Perry Studios (Firm)

34th Street Films.

Notes:

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.).

Director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music, Aaron Zigman ; production designer, Ina Mayhew ; costume designer, Johnetta Boone ; executive producers, Ozzie Areu, Joseph P. Genier, Nzingha Stewart, Michael Paseornek.

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.

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

Closed captioned.

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

ISBN:

9786314051709

Publisher Number:

29591

29591.1.1A

Other Number:

694455413

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

508555

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE For colo

Medium:

[videorecording]