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Diary of a Mad Black Woman

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Diary of a Mad Black Woman reviews
36
8.1 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama

Written by: Tyler Perry (also play)

Directed by: Darren Grant

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 25, 2005
DVD: June 28, 2005

Running Time: 116 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for drug content, thematic elements, crude sexual references and some violence

Starring Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos, Tiffany Evans, Cicely Tyson, and Tyler Perry

Filled with a mix of comedy and drama, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is based on the immensely popular play of the same name written by Tyler Perry. (Lions Gate Films)

What The Critics Said

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

While the jokes are obvious and the romance formulaic, a good-natured sensibility saves the film from being too hokey. The individual parts may not work, but the sum remains entertaining.

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50

Premiere Kevin Allison

As preposterously awkward, naïve and contrived as this movie is, it's still a curious sort of pleasure to witness-especially the gospel singing scenes.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

Harris and particularly Elise give over-the-top performances that bring Diary to the edge of soap opera.

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50

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

This is a movie that falls short only because it insists on grabbing for so much.

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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

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50

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

As lousy as it is, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is weirdly fascinating.

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50

Slate David Edelstein

Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible.

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50

Variety Joe Leydon

An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.

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50

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Diary rather sloppily blends melodrama and spiritual uplift with crass comedy, sometimes in the same scene.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.

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50

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.

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50

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The stylistic discontinuities and pile-driver excesses can be off-putting for an outsider like me, but for fans this may well be part of the appeal.

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42

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

By the film's end, you feel like you've spent two hours rapidly changing channels between a WB sitcom, the gospel-choir segments of the "Ladykillers" remake, an episode of "Law & Order" and a Mexican soap opera.

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40

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The film is never dull.

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40

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film.

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40

The New York Times Stephen Holden

So oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce.

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40

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

Rote melodrama.

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38

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

The film may be bad-and mad-but it's not predictable.

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38

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

An absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.

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30

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Part female revenge flick, part Saturday Night Live skit, part courtroom drama, and part religious tent revival, this movie never congeals into anything worth watching.

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30

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.

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30

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Cruelty, church redemption, miraculous healings of limbs and junkie relatives – all have their moments onscreen.

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30

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Veers back and forth between indigestibly syrupy romance and vulgar "ethnic" comedy, with healthy doses of Christian proselytizing thrown in for good measure.

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25

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Plenty of mad moviegoers will put this in their diaries as one of the worst pictures in ages.

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25

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

Downright awful.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Plays like an unwieldy mishmash of "Big Momma's House," "An Unmarried Woman" and "The Burning Bed," with lots of gospel music thrown in.

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25

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The Grandma is not merely wrong for the movie, but fatal to it -- a writing and casting disaster... I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.

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20

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The whole three-ring circus winds up in a church for a redemptive finale, but by then, Diary has committed too many sins for even the most generous soul to offer salvation.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 91 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

melisha m gave it a10:
i cried during the sad parts and laughed during the funny parts. things like this do happen to people in reality, and its sad. but this shows ways to deal with it and its also a wonderful family movie, we all loved it and watched it 3 times in a row and have watched it frequently since then.

Linda R gave it a10:
I love this movie it make me realize how you could easy forgive a person no matter how they treat you in the long run especially you trying to save your marriage it take two to make it work. Neither spouse have any reason to cheat on each other, that they suppose to follow their wedding vow.

Erica gave it a9:
This movie was the best it could have more funny parts though cant wait for the next one.

Mark A gave it a0:
This had to be down right the worst movie i ever seen.

Nina gave it a9:
Diary Of a Mad Black woman was a movie that I enjoyed it has a powerful message behind it it isn't just a comedy movie to make you laugh it can touch you in many more ways.

Maryanne A gave it a10:
This movie had me laughing and crying. We loved it very much.

Mark R. gave it a3:
A horrific and distasteful film. Yes, distasteful i.e. blatant humiliation and physical cruelty to a paraplegic by the protagonist.

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