I imagine that Janet Jackson's agent said that Ms. Jackson will be in this film if she gets a good crying scene, because the Motion Picture Academy looks favorably on actors and actresses who cry. Then Thandie Newton said, if she gets to cry, I want to cry also! Then Kimberly Elise said, if those two get to cry, me too! And word got around, and the entire cast demanded equal crying time. Aside from the rivers of tears, there was an ocean of poetry (at least they said it was poetry, although it sounded more like plain old prose to me). I'm not sure what relation the "poetic monologues" had to do with the story, but I guess you had to be there. I wonder how this film will do with audiences. I'm not sure most audiences are ready for more than 2 hours of unrelenting misery.
Review of For Colored Girls
