Atlanta-based playwright-turned-entertainment mogul Tyler Perry's fourth feature may be his most awkwardly plotted, cliché-ridden effort to date. But it caters – some might say panders – to his target audience with ruthless efficiency.
Single mother Brenda Brown (Angela Bassett) was dealt a bad hand -- her mother was a strung-out hooker, her father vanished before she was born -- and made a series of bad choices: Becoming pregnant as a teenager, dropping out of high school and subsequently having two more children by different deadbeat fathers. But Brenda is a fiercely devoted mother to 17-year-old Mike (Lance Gross, of Perry's TV series House of Payne<...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins