The film For Colored Girls by Tyler Perry is the adaptation of an acclaimed dramatic play for colored girls who have considered suicide but nestled among is the sole cast of Thandie Newton. She plays a rebellious promiscuous bartender named Tangie who has different men in her bed every night. Her mother, played by Whoopi Goldberg, is a religious fanatic who disapproves of her elder daughter’s behavior and is trying her best to keep her younger daughter, from ending up down the same path as her older sister. It’s a really different role for Thandie Newton, who is almost unrecognizable to those who aren’t aware it is her going in, and she certainly is given the chance to light a lot of emotional fireworks over the course of the film.
In an interview with Thandie Newton, it was a perfectly lovely conversation about working with the prolific filmmaker, doing scenes with Whoopi Goldberg, and the challenges and joys of playing an unrestrained character like Tangie. For every young woman who has gone through the same experiences as this young bartender and others who have gone through the same situations this is a heart warming film of defeat and triumph.
This film will be released on November 5th of 2010. It is being released by Lionsgate. Of course the director is Tyler Perry and he is hoping the movie goes over well in theaters and box offices. It is a comedy and drama style movie. And it is rated R for some disturbing violence. It is the poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.
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