Madea Goes to Jail Page #8

Synopsis: Mischievous grandma Madea lands in jail, where she meets a variety of mixed-up characters.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Tyler Perry
Production: Lionsgate
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.3
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
PG-13
Year:
2009
103 min
$90,485,233
Website
5,254 Views


...don't mean I'm giving you nothing.

You ain't getting none of this stuff.

Put your hands on me I'll punch

that Spanish out.

You gonna be talking

straight up English.

You're so funny.

I was just being nice.

When I saw you come in, I thought:

"I hope she's in my cell. "

Brownies for my brownie?

I made them myself.

"Brownies for your brownie?" You

trying to call me black or something?

Brownie.

Ain't no oven in here.

How the hell you make a brownie?

I have my ways.

No, thank you.

I saw you on TV.

That was a great chase.

How long you have here, my dear?

They tell me I got five years.

But I'm breaking

out of here first chance I get.

Can I come with you?

You seem like a nice, sweet person

The hell you in here for?

Stealing flowers? What you do?

Steal candy from Girl Scouts?

What, what?

No.

I murdered 18 men.

- I'm the-

- I'm sorry, you what to 18...?

I murder 18 men.

- Eighty?

- Eighteen.

One-eight men.

I'm one of the first female serial killers.

I'm going to be here till I... die.

But I'll be making you brownies,

my brownie.

Hey, which one is yours?

Oh, you can take either one.

Donna?

Candy? Oh, my God.

Candy.

- How are you doing?

- Oh, my God.

I am so glad to see you.

- I know.

- I didn't know what happened to you.

I've been trying to reach you

but you ain't got no address.

You look good.

Yeah, I'm doing good.

How are you doing?

- What?

- They gave me 17 years.

- For-? For what?

- Donna...

...I don't know what I'm gonna do.

No, that ain't right.

They had to trump your charges.

I don't know what happened.

I just know this ain't right.

Donna.

What am I gonna do

for 17 years in here?

I've been going to Ellen's services.

No, wait, wait, wait.

She teaches classes here.

You should go.

I ain't trying to be in no church.

It's not like that.

She teaches a group session.

And she is really good.

I mean, she preaches

but not like a preacher, you know.

She makes it clear

so you can understand it.

Look at me,

I've been clean all this time.

And if you take her course...

...you get time off your sentence.

You should come.

I don't know how people eat this.

This is crazy. I've seen people

on Survivor eat better food than this.

Doesn't she realize

she was running for some roaches?

You're a cute little thing.

- Get your hands off of me.

- Oh, you feisty.

- Leave her. That's my friend.

- Is anybody talking to you?

Young man.

This little lady don't wanna be

bothered, now get on up...

...go on back to where you came from.

Now, go on.

Who you think you talking to,

old lady?

You don't know me. I'm gonna

give you the benefit of the doubt.

Now, get the hell up from the table

and go on now.

Go on, go on, sir, go on.

I see nobody told you I run this prison.

I'm Big Sal and what Big Sal wants,

Big Sal gets. Get it?

I guess nobody told you

that I'm Madea.

Ma to the damn D, E, A,

you understand that?

And what I want, I get.

Do you understand me?

I'm from the west end...

...where we cut a fool first and

run like hell afterwards, understand?

You don't know me. You don't know

who the hell you talking to.

I'm gonna come across this table

and rip out your urethra tube.

I see I have to break you in.

You gonna get broke the hell in-

- We'll have our time.

- Yes, we will.

I look forward to it.

A officer and a gentleman.

Yeah, get the hell on out of here

with Alvin and the two chipmunks.

- What the hell is that?

- Thank you.

I wasn't doing nothing for you. I don't

like people messing over nobody.

I'm Terry but everybody

calls me T.T.

She say her name's T.T.

I thought she said titty too at first.

I can't understand

what the hell she's saying.

Yeah, I'm Candace.

And I'm Donna. Thank you

for sticking up for my friend.

Yeah, y'all welcome.

You have a letter.

- Why won't you talk to him?

- I ain't got nothing to say to him.

Maybe he can help figure out

why you're in here so long.

Listen, I don't wanna talk to him.

Well, obviously

that man wants to be there for you.

So why don't you let-

Why don't you just see him?

Why don't you just drop it?

Drop it. Yeah, all right.

They ain't gonna give me five years...

...Judge Mathis,

I don't care if it's Judge Judy.

You ain't gonna give me no five years.

But they did. But I've been

looking for a way to break out of here.

You folks don't know me.

I will set it all up.

Hi, sweetness.

You looking good.

I know you ain't talking to me.

She must be talking to you.

I'm ain't gonna let her

take my virginity.

- What's so funny?

- You funny.

You funny as hell

looking like Lou Ferrigno.

Old lady,

you know who you're talking to.

Yes, I do. I'm talking to you. You better

back the hell up out my face-

- Well, leave it alone.

- Go ahead on, bruh. Go ahead on.

Go ahead on.

Y'all tell him, he don't know.

So when are you coming to see me?

Young man.

Didn't this girl tell you

she don't want to be bothered?

Why the hell do you keep talking

to her? What is wrong with you?

What you gonna do?

What you...

...gonna do?

That's what I wanna know.

What you gonna do? You gonna

sit there and tell something to me.

- Would you stop it.

- Say something, say something.

- I don't hear you.

- I'll get you for this...

- ... grandma.

- What's going on, big woman?

Come on, you big papa-

Come on, up in there.

Oh, yeah.

Cover up him.

What's going on in here?

We not doing nothing.

I'm just telling her how good God is.

All right, today...

...we are gonna talk about forgiveness.

Why is this so important? Yes, T.T.

Because you have to forgive

to be forgiven.

Correct.

We must forgive others

as Christ forgave us.

Last week we talked

about the first steps to forgiveness.

Anybody know?

Acknowledging what was done.

That's right.

A lot of times we don't wanna

acknowledge what we've done.

When you don't forgive somebody,

you give them power over your life.

They're sleeping at night

and you're walking around...

...remembering everything

that they've done.

You know a little bit of my testimony.

Sixteen years living on the street.

Drug addiction, prostitution.

And I did it

because I was hurting myself.

I was hurting my daddy.

I was hurting my mother.

I was hurting every man

that did anything bad to me.

Until one day, the Lord spoke to me.

And he said:

"Forgiveness

is not for the other person.

It's for you. "

The longer you hold on to it...

...the longer you hold on

to the pain and the past and the hurt...

...the longer you hold yourself back

from being free.

I can't forgive my dad

for what he did to me.

- He's the reason I'm in here.

- Well, cookie, don't forgive him.

Because he's living his life,

you're in here.

Forgiveness is not for them.

It is for you.

Well, I can't forgive him.

You don't know what he did to me.

Lord, do I have to listen

to all this melodrama?

Is something wrong, Ms. Simmons?

Is there something wrong?

Sorry, reverend, doctor, bishop,

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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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