Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Blu-ray) PG-13
Time heals the heart. Faith heals the rest.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 23, 2010
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tyler Perry, Kimberly Elise, Cicely Tyson & Steve Harris | |
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: 1.5/4 --
The material comes off as a serious miscalculation in Perry and director Darren Grant's film adaptation.
Seattle Times
Distinguishing it from mainstream Hollywood fare is its unusual blend of melodrama, comedy, revenge fantasy and a morality play, with an uplifting spiritual underpinning throughout.
USA Today
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It's never less than watchable, a bizarre hybrid that somehow works as a whole, even though its various components don't mesh.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 1.5/4 --
A satisfying end, but it takes a lot of work -- and a lot of suspended disbelief -- to get there.
Christianity Today
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
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
Rating: 2/5 --
Syrupy drama -- not much here for kids.
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Common Sense Media
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
- Sales Rank: 59,394
- UPC: 031398127598
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item
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