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Storyline
Helen McCarter has everything a woman wants: a nice house and rich husband. However after her husband Charles throws her out of the house after admitting to an affair a distraught Helen turns to her mother, grandmother Madea and cousin Brian who take her in and turn back to God. Helen learns for the first time in her life to stand up on her two feet and is ready to remove herself from her relationship with Charles and move on with Orlando. But when her husband is almost killed by a vengeful client, Helen wonders if she has the heart to forgive him despite everything. Written by
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Plot Synopsis
Taglines:
Time heals the heart. Faith heals the rest.
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Motion Picture Rating
(MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for drug content, thematic elements, crude sexual references and some violence
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Release Date:
25 February 2005 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman
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Box Office
Budget:
$5,500,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$21,905,089
(USA)
(25 February 2005)
Gross:
$50,382,128
(USA)
(15 April 2005)
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Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia
Madea's outrage when finding the wire hanger is based on how
Joan Crawford would lose her temper and mind when she found one in the closet, as her daughter 'Christina Crawford' (who was on the receiving end of some of those hangers) explained in her book "Mommie Dearest".
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Goofs
When Orlando arrives in front of Helen's job, it is pouring raining, once she gets in his truck and they drive off, it is clear that his windshield wipers are not on yet the rain is continuously coming down hard.
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Quotes
Madea:
I remember this dude made me so mad, I didn't even know how mad I was until I went to his funeral.
Helen:
Why were you so mad at him?
Madea:
Because he hit me. Yes he hit me... and I didn't even know how mad I was until I saw him in his casket, he's 8 feet under.
Myrtle:
6 feet, that's how they bury people, Madea, 6 feet under.
Madea:
That's what I'm trying to say, I thought I was over what he did to me until I saw him at the funeral, I was so mad I BEAT HIM DOWN 2 more feet.
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Soundtracks
Growl
Performed by
Camara Kambon
Written by
Camara Kambon
Published by Colorscapes Publishing (BMI)
Courtesy of Inflx
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This was an excellent movie. Kimberly Elise is excellent as Helen, an emotionally abused spouse who gets kicked out of her mansion and has to learn to live life on her own and learn to trust men again. There are moments that are so heart wrenching that much of the theater was crying. However, before things get too down, there are numerous hilarious scenes led by Tyler Perry. The great thing is that these funny moments are integral to the story for the most part and are not just thrown in without relating to the main story lines.
Best of all, this movie has heart and a message. It's about how forgiveness is better than revenge and that you need to forgive someone because it hurts YOU if you hold that anger inside yourself. It's about how love endures even through pain and disappointment. It's about how God can turn people's lives around. It's the type of movie that you can proudly take your mother and grandmother too.
I wish they would market this type of movie more to a broad audience. It looks like they advertised this almost exclusively to a black audience, I was one of the few white people in the theater in a very integrated community.