When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Raymond, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids.
But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April’s basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new possibilities of family, faith…and even true love.
With Tyler Perry’s characteristic blend of piousness, mayhem, sass, and kitchen-sink wisdom, I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF focuses on an essential challenge we all face: learning to love ourselves so that we can give freely and receive love. “We all need to learn to let relationships and communities help us to do good instead of bad, because we can do bad all by ourselves,” explains Perry. Loosely based on his wildly popular stage play of the same name, the film shows that joylessness and a lack of respect for ourselves divorces us from others, and that strong, healthy relationships – both with individuals and a community – elevate us and change our lives for the better.
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Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Starring: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Adam Rodriguez, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye, Frederick Siglar
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry
Release: September 11, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references and smoking.
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $50,825,525 (100.0%)
Foreign: —
Total: $50,825,525 (Worldwide)