Diary of a Mad Black Woman PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 28, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cicely Tyson, Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris & Tyler Perry | |
Performer: | Tamara Taylor & Shemar Moore | |
Directed by | Darren Grant | |
Screenwriting by | Tyler Perry | |
Composition by | Camara Kambon | |
Produced by | Tyler Perry & Reuben Cannon | |
Director of Photography: | David Claessen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/10 --
[Jams] together not two but three separate genres that probably should have remained that way.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Perry doesn't have any delusions of artistry, and potentially, at least, that's refreshing. But any points he earns for lack of pretense are immediately gobbled up by his lack of subtlety.
Salon.com
Rating: 1/4 --
What ruins this revenge flick is Madea's boorish, bull in the china store act reminiscent of the sassy black woman stereotype popularized by Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther. Loud and ignorant, Medea tends to trivialize every scene.
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Princeton Town Topics
[Perry] pumps his cliches so full of hot air that they stay aloft even as you're laughing at their brazenness.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/4 --
It's a cheap melodrama that presses all the right sentimental buttons.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The material comes off as a serious miscalculation in Perry and director Darren Grant's film adaptation.
Seattle Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Raucous and overwrought, the movie is still a hoot to watch and even more fun to talk back to.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description:
Genres and genders collide in this unusual mix of Christian soap opera and raunchy cross-dressing comedy. Tyler Perry adapts his own play--one of a series wherein he personally portrays Grandma Madea, an overweight, no-nonsense, old, Christian, African-American woman. In DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN, the main character is Helen (Kimberly Elise), whose wealthy, abusive husband Charles (Steve Harris) kicks her out of their mansion after 18 years of marriage. Luckily Grandma Madea is there to offer some tough love. When a gangster's bullet later makes Charles a cripple, Helen has to decide between love (i.e. wreaking Madea-sanctioned old testament vengeance) and Christian duty. The movie then progresses in two directions: the well-acted dramatic side, with Helen getting her life together thanks to the love of the dreamy Orlando (YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS star Shemar Moore) and her hospitalized momma (Cecily Tyson); and the go-for-broke humor side, with Harris whooping it up in unfettered glee as the chainsaw-wielding, pistol-packing Madea (he also plays several other roles). Whatever one's take on the oddness of the combination, there is no denying the power of Perry's unique mixture of cross-dressing outrageousness and Christian good intent, or the fine acting talent of the entire cast.
Keywords:
Gospel
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Romance
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Infidelity
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Marriage
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Divorce
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Theatrical Release
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Adaptation
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Revenge
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Women
Product Info
- UPC: 031398175568
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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