Diary of a Mad Black Woman Page #3

Synopsis: Helen McCarter has everything a woman wants: a nice house and rich husband. However after her husband Charles throws her out of the house after admitting to an affair a distraught Helen turns to her mother, grandmother Madea and cousin Brian who take her in and turn back to God. Helen learns for the first time in her life to stand up on her two feet and is ready to remove herself from her relationship with Charles and move on with Orlando. But when her husband is almost killed by a vengeful client, Helen wonders if she has the heart to forgive him despite everything.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Darren Grant
Production: Lions Gate Films
  13 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
PG-13
Year:
2005
116 min
$50,382,128
Website
21,097 Views


Lord.

You hungry?

I can't eat anything.

You need to eat something.

What happened to her?

Life.

Brian and the kids must

really be going through it.

They're doing all right.

But I want to talk about you.

I called Charles this morning...

and he told me,

before he hung up...

that you and him

is getting a divorce.

But what I can't seem

to figure out is why you here.

He put me out of the house.

-Who house?

-Our house.

Exactly. How the hell

a man gonna put a woman...

out of her own house?

He might've put me out...

but he was gonna

put me out of half.

I'm gonna go in

the other half of the house.

He wasn't puttin' me

out of all of it.

The house is in his name, Madea.

Lord have mercy.

That's how women get messed up.

Too busy out shopping when you

need to be checking the deed.

Whoo! That makes me mad, girl.

I don't have any rights

to the money.

No right?

I signed a prenup.

What the hell

you sign a prenup--

I ought to punch you

in the face.

Who the hell told you

to sign a renup?

He didn't have nothin'

when you married him!

Charles always knew

he'd be successful.

And he said to me...

"l want to know that

you're here for love."

And I didn't have a job.

So it's his money.

Is it? What was you doing

while he was working, honey?

Taking care of the house,

cooking and cleaning.

Exactly.

That sounds like a job to me.

Cooking and cleaning--

how long you do that?

18 years.

All right. OK.

18 years...

let's see how much he owes you.

18 years...

you've been cooking...

cleaning...

having sex with him

when he wanted.

-Was it good?

-No.

Major deduction.

And I didn't tell you

that he hit me.

Girl, that man

owes you 64 billion...

283 million, 974 trillion...

5 thousand...

and 20 dollars and 82 cents.

Now, you need to get your money.

-That'll never happen.

-You want to bet?

I can happen

one of two ways, honey.

You can get it from his

checking account voluntarily...

or his insurance policy.

Involuntary manslaughter.

Which one it's gonna be?

-Madea.

-Mm-mm.

I ain't gonna have this.

Come on.

-What? Where are we going?

-To your house.

Oh, no. The guard

will never let us in.

I said come on!

Mayday! Mayday!

Lord have mercy.

Get your stuff.

What the hell

is wrong with you?

These your clothes?

They're hers.

Oh, they're hers?

Who is, uh...

"Dol...say & Gab-anna?"

Who that is?

Dolce and Gabbana.

They're designers.

Oh. She a label ho.

$700 for a damn rag?

Just a rag.

Madea, no, no, no.

Don't do that.

This man left you...

for some old floozy.

Madea, what's wrong?

A wire hanger!

Rip it.

Rip it?

-Rip it.

-No, no.

Rip it!

-Rip it? Rip it!

-Rip it!

Rip it!

Rip it!

What the hell are you doing?

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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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