I Can Do Bad All By Myself Page #3

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
2,491 Views


Their mama, she dead.

And so my mother is raising them...

...and that's who you should talk to

to get your money.

If she ain't there, you better get me

the $300 and get my VCR.

That's all I'm telling you.

I'm telling you I don't have $300,

and these ain't my kids.

Let me explain something to you.

If you don't give me my money...

...I'm calling the po-po

on all three of these thugs.

You can use my phone.

Help us, Aunt April.

We tried to find Grandma.

What if I bring them

over to your house...

...and they can work the money off?

-Work it off? Hell, no.

-Clean up?

-What do you mean "what"?

-No, no.

I want my $300.

You gonna bring them to work for me?

You can't bring them to my house

to do nothing.

I got a white woman next door to me

and I have a dog.

You know what that mean?

I don't wanna let O.J.

and Michael Vick at my house.

Well, I don't know what to tell you,

because I don't have--

Fine. Fine.

Make sure

they be over at my house.

That thing ain't even worth--

Say something else.

I want you to say something-- Say--

Snatch away from me,

I'm gonna punch you like I dude.

Say something.

Come in here.

Little O.J., that thug and

Sister Souljah, she know where I live.

-Make sure they be at my house.

-Yeah.

Where is your grandmother?

-We don't know.

-Y'all can't stay here.

Okay, I got a man,

and he don't like kids.

So y'all gonna have

to figure something else out.

All right, y'all can't stay here.

So where is she?

You can't smoke around him.

He has asthma.

Girl, this is my house.

You can wait outside.

-Fine, then. We will.

-Good.

Wait, we ain't been to sleep all night.

I'm tired.

Well, y'all can stay here, but I'm out.

Get up out of here with that attitude.

Come on. Get to stepping.

-Hey, look, I'll see y'all later, okay?

-All right.

-Bye-bye.

-Bye.

Puffy and Biggie,

y'all don't wanna go with Lil' Kim?

-Nope, I'm going to sleep.

-I'm going to bed. Y'all shut up.

Don't make no noise.

I gotta work tonight.

Oh, okay. Good.

Bless you.

God bless you, and come again.

Glad we could help.

-Hi.

-Hello.

I am from Pastor Hector Romalle's

church in Columbia.

-You used to run missions there.

-That was a long time ago.

-What's your full name?

-Sandino. Sandino Ramirez.

You seemed to be doing so well there.

What are you doing here?

I've come to this country

to find a better life.

To find some work.

Not having much luck.

I remember you're here,

I wanted to see if you could help me.

Got any special skills?

What is it that you do?

I'm a handyman.

We have some things around

need to be fixed.

Got plenty of tools,

plenty of supplies.

Don't have much pay,

but we will pay you something.

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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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