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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Directed by
Darren Grant
PG-13
2005
1h 56m
Comedy
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Drama
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5.7
16%
86%
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A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.
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Cast of Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Kimberly Elise
Helen McCarter
Steve Harris
Charles McCarter
Tyler Perry
Madea / Brian / Joe
Shemar Moore
Orlando
Lisa Marcos
Brenda
Tamara Taylor
Debrah
Cicely Tyson
Myrtle
Terrell Carter
Reverend Carter
Carol Mitchell-Leon
Mildred
Avery Knight
BJ
Vickie Eng
Christina
Tiffany Evans
Tiffany
Gary Anthony Sturgis
Jamison
Bart Hansard
Guard
Chandra Currelley-Young
Chandra
Sho Dixon
Child
Tamela Mann
Cora
Ric Reitz
D.A.
Lauren Leah Mitchell
Doctor
Mike Pniewski
Foreman
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Judge
L. Warren Young
Judge
Mablean Ephriam
Judge Mablean Ephriam
Tony Vaughn
Juror
E. Roger Mitchell
Kalvin
Cedric Pendleton
Max
Richard Reed
Bailiff
Joe Washington
Reporter
Kate Donadio
Secretary
Syr Law
Woman
Ryan Gentles
Bartender
Ronnie Garrett
Band Member #1
Marcus Williams
Band Member #2
Earl Fleming
Band Member #3
Christian Keyes
Man Proposing
Michael Beasley
Madea Photo-Double (uncredited)
Cheryl Pepsii Riley
Singer at Banquet (uncredited)
Ryan Kilgore
Band Member (uncredited)
Steve Warren
Lawyer at Banquet (uncredited)
Robert Hatch
Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Vic Aviles
Party Guest (uncredited)
John Fitzgerald Page
Dr. Frank Doyle (uncredited)
Nicky Buggs
Nurse (uncredited)
Laurie Gardner
Nurse (uncredited)
Robb G Douglas
Man in Bar (uncredited)
Donnie McClurkin
Pastor (uncredited)
Jamecia Gray
Church Goer (uncredited)
Brandon Thaxton
Church Parishioner (uncredited)
Shane Thaxton
Church Parishioner (uncredited)
Craig Thaxton
Church Van Driver (uncredited)
Joe Walsh
Steel Worker (uncredited)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Raucous and overwrought, the movie is still a hoot to watch and even more fun to talk back to.
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
While the movie fills a much-needed niche in the lily-white Hallmark movie department, this clunky, borderline-amateur directorial effort from music-video veteran Darren Grant simply doesn't do justice to the material. In fact, it's downright awful.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
The material comes off as a serious miscalculation in Perry and director Darren Grant's film adaptation.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Stay clear of this mess.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It turns on a dime from scenes of maudlin sentimentality to manic slapstick, then turns on another dime to trite Christian moralizing.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
The film itself is a touch insane, veering from comedy to cornball melodrama (and torture!) with such startling alacrity that viewers might laugh and not know if they're supposed to.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The whole thing is a melodrama; there's nothing fatally wrong with that. But the set-ups are so easy and obvious, the humor so broad and the characters such one-dimensional stereotypes that the drama is laughable.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Diary of a Mad Black Woman is directed by Darren Grant, who is unable to wrangle all of Perry's attempts to entertain -- or pander to -- his audience into anything resembling a satisfying movie.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Some of these problems stem from the film's leap from a theatrical production's play-to-the-rafters bigness to the screen's demands for something more finessed. There's not a lot of nuance here.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Diary of a Mad Black Woman is a shambling affair.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Syrupy drama -- not much here for kids.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The audience is whooping and hollering, basically having the gayest old time imaginable, and you sit there in utter disbelief, horrified anyone of even remotely sound mind is enjoying themselves.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Perry doesn't have any delusions of artistry, and potentially, at least, that's refreshing. But any points he earns for lack of pretense are immediately gobbled up by his lack of subtlety.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Three separate movies collide in this uneven but heartfelt drama.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Tyler Perry's movie is so oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Comic relief is often welcome in drama, but these broad caricatures, which draw easy laughter as the minstrel turns they are, destroy the sense of reality that a large and hardworking cast is otherwise striving to create.
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