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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alfre Woodard & Kathy Bates | |
Performer: | Tyler Perry, Cole Hauser, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, Taraji P. Henson, KaDee Strickland & Sebastian Siegel | |
Directed by | Tyler Perry | |
Screenwriting by | Tyler Perry | |
Composition by | Aaron Zigman | |
Produced by | Tyler Perry & Reuben Cannon | |
Director of Photography: | Toyomichi Kurita |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Though the movie at times flowed like a soap opera with its dramatic turns and pregnant pauses, it kept your attention.
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Reel Talk Online
Rating: 6/10 --
Whatever its other sins, the movie cannot be accused of wanting for ambition or scope.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip.
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Los Angeles Times
By far the best thing about the enterprise is Woodard. If she's not in this thing, I think it goes kaput.
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Washington Post
Rating: C+ --
While it's wonderful to see actresses as shamefully underemployed as Woodard and Bates on the big screen, even they can't make sense of [these] incoherent characters.
AV Club
Rating: C+ --
As usual, the villains are very bad, and the good guys are very noble -- until they get mad and clock their wives.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The movie plays almost exactly like four daily soap episodes stitched together.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
Tyler Perry (MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION) delivers another of his deliciously soapy tales of loyalty, betrayal, passion, and redemption amongst African Americans, this time playing across two Atlanta families, one of whom is white. Kathy Bates co-stars as southern business clan matriarch Charlotte Cartwright, whose lifelong friendship with Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard) has led to prosperity for both their families. But Charlotte's evil son, William (Cole Hauser), is getting mixed up with Alice's unscrupulous daughter, Andrea (Sanaa Lathan), while her husband (Rockmond Dunbar) stays willingly blind in order to get William's help with his construction business. Perry himself plays the good son-in-law struggling with good wife Pam (Taraji P. Henson) to avoid going down with the ship as resulting skeleton-packed closets explode all over Atlanta. Played out in Perry's patented blend of tearful pathos, sexy snarkiness, moral uplift, and sly humor, this feels culled straight from the pages of a juicy beach novel, in the best of ways. The acting is uniformly ripe, with Hauser brilliantly sleazy, Lathan enjoyably difficult, and lots of old-fashioned "you go girl" charm and grace from veteran thespians Bates and Woodard, who go on an old-school road trip to work things out. The neo-soul soundrack includes songs from Jill Scott and Janet Jackson.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 38,113
- UPC: 031398104544
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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