I Can Do Bad All By Myself Page #2

Synopsis: When Madea 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Tyler Perry
Production: Lionsgate Films
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.3
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
PG-13
Year:
2009
113 min
$51,697,449
Website
2,482 Views


I love you.

I can't give you another drink.

Okay. All right. Okay.

I'm gone. I'm gone.

-Have it your way.

-Hurry up.

-Hey.

-Be careful.

-Good night.

-Good night.

-Oh, hey, April.

-Hey.

You got some money?

Man, didn't I just give you

some money?

Yes, I did.

Don't lie. Don't lie.

Hey, hey! Hold it! Hold it!

Man, superstar coming through.

Should I get this? Wifey's calling.

Sh*t, I wish you would.

I dare you. Put it down.

You need to fix

the floor in the bathroom.

Everything in this damn house

is broken.

Well, when I get some money to fix it,

I'll fix it.

But until then,

what you get is raggedy.

Who's snapping?

Hello?

Hey, baby.

No. No, I ain't off--

-You did? Stop.

-Stop.

You what?

Janice, I told you....

No, I know that. Look, I'm happy.

Look, I said I'm happy.

Yeah, okay. I'll call you later.

-Yeah, you sound real happy.

-She's pregnant.

Congratulations.

April, you know good and damn well

I don't want no more kids.

I can barely pay

the damn bills in my house.

And yours.

What the hell am I gonna do

with some more kids, huh?

I got four already. I can't even handle

this damn child support.

-Killing my ass.

-Whose fault is that?

What did you say?

Nothing.

-You said something.

-Nothing. Baby, nothing.

It's nothing.

Nothing.

-Nothing?

-No.

What, you gonna tell me

you pregnant now?

You know I don't want kids.

All I want is you.

Well, good. Come on.

-I gotta go.

-Okay.

You know I love you, right?

Me too.

Now, go tell wifey I said hi.

Kiss the kids for me.

-That's funny.

-I'm serious. Tell wifey I said hi.

I'm going to sleep.

This better be the right address.

If I go one more place, and y'all

done sent me to the wrong place...

...I'm gonna hurt somebody.

Get on out of the car, little boy.

Come on, girl, with that attitude.

You call that a knock?

Bang on the door and step down here.

Somebody gonna open this door,

I don't care.

-Okay!

-Kick the door, kick it.

What the hell y'all banging my door

for at this time of the morning?

It's 7 a.m.

I don't know who you think

you talking to...

...but it is 12:
30 in the afternoon.

-Do you know these children, hooker?

-No.

Aunt April.

Snitch.

All right, that's my niece

and my nephews. What did y'all do?

They broke into my house...

...and broke my VCR

trying to steal something.

I want my money.

That's why I brought them.

These are not my kids.

You know what?

-Take them to my mama.

-Hold the hell on.

They ain't seen your mama

in four days.

-That's not like her. Where is she?

-They don't know.

Hell, why I'm supposed to know?

I don't know. I don't know her.

Okay, my sister is dead.

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Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker. In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million USD between May 2010 and 2011.Perry created and performs the Madea character, a tough elderly black woman. Perry's films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays. Perry is estimated to have earned around US$75 million by 2008. Many of Perry's stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as films. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. Perry has developed several television series, most notably Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from June 21, 2006, to August 10, 2012. On October 2, 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network. The partnership was largely for the sake of bringing scripted television to the OWN, based on Perry's previous success in this area. Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, The Haves and the Have Nots being its most successful. The Haves and the Have Nots has given OWN its highest ratings to date as of 2014, with the series also referred to as "one of OWN's biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, and manipulations." more…

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