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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0031398186731
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2005
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 16092
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/05/2006 Run time: 130 minutes Rating: Ur
Amazon.com:
Few movies are made with the personal fervor of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. When Helen (Kimberly Elise, Beloved) is literally thrown out of her house by her callous lawyer husband (Steve Harris), her sense of self unravels. She finds herself on the doorstep of her gun-toting grandmother Madea (cross-dressed Tyler Perry), who sets Helen on the road to dignity and forgiveness--with a few detours along the way. The plot of Diary of a Mad Black Woman unfolds in a dizzying melange of styles, from soap opera to campy comedy to chick-flick romance to gothic revenge to inspirational tale of redemption. Perry, like Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor, plays multiple roles in a family, two of which are over-the-top scenery-chewers while the other is a sincere, generous family man with a drug-addicted wife. This everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach reflects the play's origins; Perry adapted the screenplay from his enormously popular gospel play, a genre of melodrama featuring extreme emotional drama and whiplash inducing plot turns. Some viewers will clutch this movie to their breast as a cinematic feast; others will see it as so schizophrenic it borders on the surreal. But either way, Elise's charismatic performance will keep you engaged throughout. Also featuring Cicely Tyson (Sounder), Shemar Moore (The Brothers), and Judge Mablean Ephriam (Divorce Court). --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - PU! Christian preaching and bad songs
This musical "comedy" features torturing a man in a shower for 3 solid days, not feeding or giving him water, cheating, lying, cursing, drugs and gun toting. Lovely! Characters appear for no apparent reason and never reappear. Medea, the "star" of the show doesn't show up till almost half-way through this travesty. There is screaming, sadistic crimes and people treating each other with disgust and hatred. Throughout the "show" there's lots of preaching about Christian love and some of the most God-awful songs I have ever heard. Then it just ends for no reason. If you can get over the insipid comments to the audience you will see these actors are very talented performers and singers. However, they are given junk to mouth. A waste of time. Most TV sit-coms are better produced.
Rating:  - Another great play by Tyler Perry
Love this play. It appeals to all people. Tyler has such an understanding of all people.
Rating: - Diary Of A Mad Black Woman
I just love the quality of Tyler Perry's Dramas. They are filled with enjoyment and sollutions for life experiences.
Rating: - FUN-NY!!!
Even if you've seen the movie version, this play is different and worth adding to your Madea collection. It will have you ROFL (Rolling On the
Floor Laughing). Tyler Perry as Madea pulls it off again. Invite friends over and have a good hardy laugh. It brings families together as you and your children find the satire.
God bless!
Rating: - Diary of a Mad Black Woman: The Play
This is a good production. Marva King is great in her role as Helen and Tyler Perry does it again as Madea and his new role, Daddy Charles (Charles Sr.). Helen and Charles Jr. were high school sweet hearts who married young. Charles has become a very successful Atlanta defense attorney, with a mansion the size of the Pentagon and Helen was his beautiful, stay-at-home wife, Over the years, Charles becomes a vain and mean spirited man whom has mistreatment Helen on numerous occasions within their marriage. Helen fears they've grown apart, which seems an understatement, given his secretiveness and verbal abuse. Asked about his mysterious late-night disappearances he snaps, "When you get a job and pay one of these bills, then you can ask me a question!" Her fears are confirmed when, without warning, and on the evening of their 18th wedding anniversary, He announces that he's leaving her for her best friend Brenda. Unfortunate for him and his mistress, Helen is the Granddaughter of Madea; Once Madea gets wind of how Charles has been mistreating Helen, all hell breaks loose. Nobody messes with Madea and family members!
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