For Colored Girls is a 2010 drama film based on the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. For Colored Girls stars Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose. The film is directed by Tyler Perry (Why Did I Get Married?, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman).http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/ For Colored Girls features an ensemble cast that also includes Oprah Winfrey, Michael Ealy, Omari Hardwick, Phylicia Rashad, Macy Gray and Whoopi Goldberg, among others.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf/

The theatrical trailer for For Colored Girls was released by Lionsgate in September of 2010. The trailer, set to the Nina Simone song "Four Women," relies heavily on Shange's prose to set the tone of the film.http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/16/for-colored-girls-trailer-will-the-movie-win-tyler-perry-any-respect/

The theatrical trailer for For Colored Girls opens with Janet Jackson as "Jo" (or "Red") reciting verses from the Ntozake Shange poem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf as several clips from the film are shown. As the trailer continues, several cast members/characters continue to recite lines from the poem. Loretta Devine's character, "Juanita" (or "Green") is shown telling a suitor, "Frank" (Richard Lawson) that she has "a real dead loving here for you now." When Frank says, "I guess this is goodbye?" Juanita tells him yes, "like you've never seen it before."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA

As the trailer continues, various cast members are introduced, along with brief vignettes from their performances. One of the women is struggling with a spouse who is incarcerated and another is dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. Each character seems to be struggling with their own, personal conflict.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA