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- 2005
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 56 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 56 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Darren Grant
Written By: Tyler Perry
- 2005
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 56 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 56 m
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
36
5.5
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Darren Grant
Written By: Tyler Perry
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
36
10% Positive
3 Reviews
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53% Mixed
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16 Reviews
37% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
36
10% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
53% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
37% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.5
53% Positive
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21% Mixed
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26% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.5
53% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
21% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
26% Negative
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The critics have done it AGAIN! They have underated another GREAT Perry film! This movie's too good to get such a low score. People who rated this movie low are just JEALOUS just like spike lee is because Tyler Perry makes GREAT films. REMEMBER.....jealousy is a sin!!!!.....
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althouhg I really thought that is movie had potentiel, really funny, tougher, i lked it but it just sounds amazing! I could not believe my hays when i was slappin down for this movmie! good. I. Was HAPPY!oh wow i could really reltate to this, but not anytime hen wonfourchunaitley!
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The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.
The film is never dull.
An absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.
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.
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.
This was the first Tyler Perry movie I ever seen. Madea cracked me up so much that I had to watch all of his movies. This a pretty messed up movie. I guess don't piss off a black woman or she will make you pay.
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Helen (Kimberly Elise) and Charles McCarter (Steve Harris) have money, success, and a fine home. Their lives are perfect – on the surface. Charles, an attorney, is distant, verbally abusive, and has been having multiple affairs, while Helen is unemployed, bored at home, and desperately trying to make her marriage work. On the evening of their 18th wedding anniversary, Helen arrives home to find all her belongings in a U-Haul, and that Charles is kicking her out for Brenda (Lisa Marcos), his young mistress and the mother of his two sons.
Helen kicks the driver, Orlando (Shemar Moore), out of the truck and visits her intimidating grandmother, Madea (Tyler Perry). Madea takes Helen in and helps her get back on her feet, to the dismay of Madea's brother, Joe (also Tyler Perry). Joe's son, Brian (also Tyler Perry), acts as Madea and Helen's attorney after Charles and Brenda catch the pair breaking into and vandalizing Charles's mansion. Because Madea is a repeat offender, Judge Mablean Ephriam places her under house arrest and sets a $5,000 property or cash bond for Helen.
Brian kicks his addict wife, Debrah (Tamara Taylor), out of their home. This causes him to have a strained relationship with his daughter, Tiffany (Tiffany Evans), who wants to join the church choir. Fearing that Tiffany will turn to drugs like her mother, Brian does not allow her until Madea convinces him otherwise, encouraging him to also fix his relationship with Debrah. Helen cultivates a relationship with Orlando. Meanwhile, career criminal Jamison Milton Jackson (Gary Anthony Sturgis) asks Charles to be his defense attorney in his trial for shooting an undercover cop during a drug deal and to possibly bribe the judge $300,000 to rule in his favor. This forces the revelation that Charles received most of his money through drug deals and buying off judges.
In court for divorce, Helen lets Charles keep all the money and property, provided he pay Brian's attorney fees and continue paying for her mother, Myrtle Jean's (Cicely Tyson) stay in a nursing home since he made her place her there; Charles agrees to both terms. In the shooting case, despite Charles' efforts, the jury finds Jamison guilty. As Jamison is being led out of the courtroom, he snatches the bailiff's gun and shoots Charles in the back for failing to get him acquitted.
Orlando proposes to Helen, but before she can respond, she sees the shooting on the news and goes to the hospital with Brian. They run into Brenda upon arriving. The doctor says Charles might be paralyzed for life and asks if they should resuscitate him if things deteriorate. Brenda chooses to let Charles perish, but Helen, still Charles's legal wife, tells the doctor to do everything they can for him.
Charles recovers, returns home with Helen, and resumes his verbal abuse of her. But Helen takes the opportunity to retaliate for years of neglect and verbal and emotional abuse. Brenda is revealed to have emptied Charles's bank account during his hospitalization and left with their boys. Their maid, Christina, has left as well because Charles has no money to pay her. In addition, all of Charles's friends and associates have turned their backs on him now that he has been left penniless.
Helen and Orlando argue when he learns she has moved back in with Charles to look after him. He leaves in anger. Charles realizes his mistakes and apologizes to Helen, realizing that she was the only one who showed any true care for him. He becomes a kinder man, while she helps him recover. He regains his ability to walk one day in church, where Debrah, now clean and sober, reconciles with Brian. Charles hopes to start over with Helen, but during a family dinner, she gives him her wedding ring and signed divorce papers and tells him she will always be his friend. She finds Orlando, asks him to propose again, and accepts when he does.
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play writer Tyler Perry makes his writing and acting debut in his first film! When critics hate your movie for the first time, bad news they hate you and you should leave show business. In my opinion: Tyler Perry is not a bad writer/director i have like some of his movies (Madea,Good deeds), when perry wrote his first movie script for 'Diary of a mad black woman' then he started to lose his talent. He just makes his own style black humor that gets me annoyed he does the same things in his series of comedies. This movie is powerful and hilarious at times. But not a good start for Tyler Perry. Grade 76.9
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I am afraid this film does not promote the safe and lawful use of firearms.
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Awards
BET Comedy Awards
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
Black Movie Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
