Plot For Colored Girls

each woman represented color: jo bradmore represents red, tangie adrose represents orange, yasmine represents yellow, juanita sims represents green, kelly watkins represents blue, nyla adrose represents purple, , crystal wallace represents brown. additionally, characters of alice adrose, represents white, , gilda, not represent color, made film.

the film opens 9 main characters reciting poem of inner thoughts ( dark phrases ). kelly arrives @ tangie s brownstone see crystal safety of children. @ time, juanita arrives leave lover, frank, potted plant , telling him breaking off affair ( no assistance ). kelly attempts speak crystal s children on how ended in hospital, unsuccessful when crystal s alcoholic boyfriend, beau willie, kicks out. crystal s nosy neighbor , apartment manager, gilda, informs kelly of crystal s situation ( night beau willie brown ) , reveals 1 called her. meanwhile, alice, tangie s mother, shows beseech tangie money, gets rebuffed instead.

alice goes out raise money, , encounters yasmine, gives little money. yasmine boasting girls in dance class bill, man met on subway, , agrees date, despite initial hesitance. 1 of yasmine s dance students, nyla, talking girls graduation night , losing virginity ( graduation nite ), , later begins vomit.

juanita waiting in jo s office @ robe rouge, fictional magazine company. crystal shows work, having been running late , informs jo 9 o clock appointment has arrived, despite being 10 o clock. juanita allowed in interest jo in giving money non-profit organization specializes in women s health care, rudely rebuffed.

kelly donald, partner, @ gynecologist, informs kelly cannot have children due scarring in fallopian tubes caused untreated std. so, kelly runs off without explanation. juanita @ hospital giving advice on safe sex women when frank comes along ask forgiveness, juanita refuses give in advances. tangie, works bartender, finds married man on business , offers show him time. same night, crystal implores beau willie stop drinking, while cares marrying increase welfare benefits. @ restaurant, jo leaves voice message on husband s, carl, phone, imploring him call her.

at same restaurant, yasmine , bill have date night together, recalling story love latin dances ( love more ). alice comes home apartment , s revealed nyla alice s daughter , tangie s sister. alice gives nyla feeble amount of money made, under belief s nyla s college application fees. meanwhile, yasmine walking home date bill, explaining loved dance more until met bill ( love more cont.).

tangie takes married man home sleep him, angrily kicks him out after learns thought prostitute. nyla shows ask tangie money, explaining needs college, tangie not fooled. deduces nyla pregnant, nyla denies this. tangie relishes in fact nyla isn t perfect after , alice hate way hates tangie. tells time got pregnant , reveals find back-alley abortionist.

jo waits impatiently carl return home , s revealed carl man donald had arrested earlier. couple argument carl investing failed company jo s money, carl did because felt emasculated man, not providing , forfeiting right in favor of submitting jo s will. donald returns , kelly s apartment kelly reveals how got std. explains long before married, , 2 of friends had been seeing same man , contracted disease him ( pyramid ). despite this, donald reveals still loves kelly regardless of condition. juanita drives home see frank waiting on stoop. seduces letting him stay @ apartment.

the next day, jo receives flowers carl , calls him thank him. reveals got tickets opera, hates, apology last night s argument. during conversation, looking @ other men desiringly. yasmine receives flowers, bill, , visited tangie, came pay 3 hundred dollars nyla s college fees. rudely informs yasmine bill wants fuck her, offers pay nyla s fees, yasmine reveals dance class free.

tangie realizes nyla went see abortionist, rose (macy gray), terrifying, , drunk. nyla s mind goes blank during abortion rose tells of story life in harlem ( used live in world ). yasmine excitedly invites bill home dinner. after light flirting , drinking, bill removes clothing , savagely rapes her. jo , husband @ opera, watching performance of la donna in viola (an italian, operatic version of pyramid ). during performance, jo watches husband cruises man.

the next day, jo informs crystal not have list of advertisers in folder , has important meeting soon. crystal offers take train building, jo tells ll waste time , offers drive there in limo. seeing male driver in car, beau willie believes crystal having affair , abuse begins, can heard in gilda s house watches kids. tries calm fears telling them story how met first husband ( toussaint ).

beau willie takes children gilda s show can father , asks crystal marry him once again. after refuses, beau willie becomes violent , dangles children on fifth-story window, giving crystal ultimatum. gilda frantically runs out street , screams jo, juanita , several on-lookers witness beau willie drop children death ( night beau willie brown cont.).

donald interrogates yasmine @ hospital on rape, informs ll difficult press charges tells him women can raped anywhere ( latent rapists ). @ same hospital, alice frantically comes in search of nyla, passed out in streets after abortion. nyla being interrogated renee , kelly, , gives them , alice vivid detail of abortion ( abortion cycle #1 ). kelly leaves room find crystal screaming in horror @ realization of children s brutal murder being comforted gilda, jo , juanita. after being informed of situation , recognizing crystal, kelly becomes visibly upset.

alice confronts tangie in apartment , after physical altercation, reveal each other tangie raped grandfather, alice s father, causing alice take abortionist alice supervised her, whereas nyla unsupervised. alice reveals father took virginity , given white man @ fifteen have children. these events explained why tangie way ( 1 cont.). after kicking alice out of apartment, gilda comes house put ice on bruise on tangie s face. explains tangie , mother make lot of sense before telling detailed account of tangie s exploits ( 1 cont.). tangie believes gilda has been snooping again through wall, gilda reveals once tangie.

juanita comes home find frank gone , assumes has left again, comes home chinese food , sees juanita upset, despite trying appear happy , asked hold her. carl comes home find jo distraught , reveals happened crystal, stating never once knew abused , wondering kind of person was. jo , carl embrace sobs shoulder. alice , nyla return apartment alice tells pray forgiveness. nyla prays, alice attempts exorcise ashes , hot oil, hurting nyla. nyla freaks out, fights off alice , runs away yasmine s apartment, hoping find comfort. however, yasmine traumatized rape answer door, nyla leaves.

kelly waiting outside brownstone crystal comes out pail , brush wash away blood of children. kelly walks , crystal asks if s awake, kelly, speechless, nods head. crystal comments not feel awake , thinks death must feel like. nyla passes , kelly takes crystal s apartment wash up. hearing tangie bring in yet suitor apartment, nyla confronts her. tangie kicks suitor out after asks invite nyla threesome. tangie , nyla hash out problems, before tangie reveals life complicated , s still learning mistakes ( no more love poems #4 ). afterwards, tangie , nyla reconcile.

yasmine practicing interpretive dance ( sechita ) kelly discovers crystal has swallowed entire bottle of pills. crystal taken hospital yasmine visited donald, has informed bill has been murdered after attempting rape woman. goes morgue @ body 1 last time, before slapping him , leaving. juanita informs kelly, nyla, tangie , gilda doctors pumped crystal s stomach , can see visitors stabilizes.

that night, kelly unable sleep, feeling guilty not taking crystal s children away sooner because had see doctor infertility. donald reassures 1 thing has nothing other. juanita comes home birthday cake frank, find not home , clothes gone. juanita vents frustration women s health class ( walked off wid alla stuff ) crystal released hospital , goes therapy. jo gives juanita check non-profit organization, beau willie sent jail, , nyla returns dance class yasmine.

tangie knocks on crystal s door invite nyla s going away party. crystal declines, says ll go if feels it. tangie begrudgingly invites gilda, both having unspoken, mutual respect each other. juanita breaks things off frank ( no more love poems #1 ). gilda comes crystal s apartment see if s eaten, hasn t. crystal still wondering how beau willie such thing, gilda tells needs take responsibility not leaving beau willie sooner, , tells needs out of apartment.

jo confronts carl on homosexuality, angrily denies @ first jo tells him not oblivious way carl looks @ other men. after venting frustrations on jo s controlling nature, admits has been sleeping other men , tells s sorry. jo, however, tells him not accepting apology, having heard him apologize many times before ( sorry ). jo reveals hiv-positive carl s exploits , tells carl leave when gets home.

at nyla s going away party, women gather celebrate. alice arrives under tangie s invitation give nyla few presents , tells nyla s proud of her. leaves let nyla , tangie enjoy night together. jo , juanita have conversation on rooftop hiv, juanita assures jo hiv not death sentence. other women come out join them, including crystal, women talk value of love ( love ) , share experiences men s apologies ( sorry cont.).

crystal tells missing in life , women reveal hurt , pain ve gone through in lives, before coming embrace crystal , each other ( laying on of hands ) , move forward lives.