Madea's Family Reunion

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Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion
Directed by Tyler Perry
Produced by Michael Paseornek
Peter Block
Tyler Perry
Written by Tyler Perry
Starring Tyler Perry
Blair Underwood
Lynn Whitfield
Boris Kodjoe
Henry Simmons
Lisa Arrindell Anderson
Maya Angelou
Rochelle Aytes
Jenifer Lewis
Tangi Miller
Keke Palmer
Cicely Tyson
Johnny Gill
Cassi Davis
Distributed by Lionsgate
Release date(s) February 24, 2006
Budget $6 million
Preceded by Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
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Madea's Family Reunion is a film adaptation of the acclaimed stage production written by Tyler Perry and sequel to Diary of a Mad Black Woman. It was written and directed by Perry and features him playing several characters, including Mabel "Madea" Simmons. It was released on February 24, 2006. The independent film was produced by Lionsgate.

Taglines:
Learn dignity. Demand respect.
There's nothing broken that can't be fixed with love.
This February, you're invited.
Come as you are. Leave different.

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[edit] Plot

An unstoppable force of nature, southern matriarch Madea may have finally taken on more than she can chew. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, who has been in foster care most of her life. Her niece Lisa is getting hitched to one of the most eligible bachelors in Atlanta. But the conflict is that her fiance has been abusing her for the last 5 months. Her sister Vanessa falls in love with Frankie, a bus driver. On the day that Lisa is supposed to marry Carlos, she confronts Carlos and pours hot grits on him. At the church Lisa says that she won't be getting married, and Frankie walks up to Vanessa & asks her to marry him. They get married that day.

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[edit] Trivia

  • After Lisa pours hot grits all over Carlos, the song Love and Happiness by Al Green is played, an obvious reference to the Al Green incident when his former long-time friend intentionally poured hot grits all over Green while he was undressed to get in the shower.

[edit] Quotes

Keke Palmer: If You hit me im going to call 911.

Madea: My Daughter tried that I hit her so hard she dialed 9-19.

(After Joe Passes Gas)

Joe: You goin get some?

Boris Kodjoe: Uh.. No Im taking her out to eat.

Joe Thats what it all means you take her out to eat that means you going to get some.

Madea Nasty Bastard always in my house passing gas. Oh hey Im Mabel.. Uh Heller

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released by Atlantic Records on February 21st, 2006.

Soundtrack listing:

[edit] Box Office

  • Budget: $6 million
  • Box Office Receipts: $63.3 million

Small independent filmmaker Tyler Perry has garnered one of the highest wide-release openings to date in 2006, in both gross ($30 million) and screen average ($13,687)[1].

"The number one movie is Madea's Family Reunion, a small comedy/melodrama which grossed an astounding $30.3 million from 2,194 venues. It had a super-hot venue average of $13,787...."[2]

"Playing at 2,194 locations across North America, the film averaged a remarkable estimated $13,788 per screen, demonstrating the enormous breadth and depth of Perry's audience. The debut weekend of Madea's Family Reunion outperformed the opening weekend of Lionsgate's first Tyler Perry film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, by nearly 40 percent."[3]

The reasoning for the film's relative success[4], according to Steve Rothenberg, Lions Gate president of domestic distribution, is due to its targeted market appeal, "I believe that we're in all the right theaters...I'm not sure there's much room for expansion[5]." To illustrate the point, Lions Gate exit polls[6] showed 52% of the audience were black women over the age of 35.

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Preceded by
Eight Below		 Box office number-one films of 2006 (USA)
February 26, 2006 – March 5, 2006		 Succeeded by
Failure to Launch
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