Why Did I Get Married? Page #11

Synopsis: Dr. Patricia Agnew, a psychologist, has written a best seller about marriage: hers and those of three other couples who together take a week's vacation each year to ask themselves, "Why did I get married?" It's time for one of those weeks, and all four relationships are strained: Patricia and her husband Gavin have the shadow of grief between them; Terry believes that Diane has abandoned him for her work; Angela, who's built a successful business, belittles her husband Marcus, who works for her; Mike is cruel to Sheila, his religious, overweight wife. During the week, each person's secret comes out. Will these marriages survive?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Tyler Perry
Production: Lionsgate Films
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
PG-13
Year:
2007
113 min
$55,184,721
Website
7,587 Views


- Great.

- Good. Good.

- You look good.

- Thank you.

Well, I'm gonna go to the ladies room

and freshen up.

- All right.

- Ooh! Lipstick.

Lipstick.

Don't kiss me.

Stop, stop, stop.

Shelia?

Heh.

- Trina.

- Wow.

You look amazing.

How... how are you?

I feel amazing.

Wow.

I wondered what I would do

when I saw you again.

If I would cuss you out

or stomp you on the street,

whup that ass.

And amazingly...

all I want to do is pray for you.

But don't tempt me.

Stay away from

the wine bottles, OK?

Have a good evening.

Sheriff?

Oh, what you doing here?

Well, we came to support Patricia

on her big night.

"We?" Who's we?

Me and my wife.

OK. I think I'm ready.

Shelia?

Hello, Mike.

Which way is it?

Right up here

to the left, honey.

- You look beautiful.

- Thank you.

Perfect!

Thank you. So much.

That's beautiful.

Divas...

Oh, my God!

Oh, you remembered.

- How could I forget?

- What happened?

Where? Oh...

Oh, my God!

We've been worried

about you, you know.

I'm fine.

That's this glow that

I see happening here?

I haven't seen that

in a long time.

I'd like to think I had a little something

to do with that.

Oh, hey, Troy.

How you doing, ladies?

What are you doing here?

Shelia?

I stayed in Colorado.

We're married now.

Get out!

You're about to make me

have a heart attack.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

Troy, you gotta go.

Get out. Troy, get out.

We need to speak to our friend,

so she can tell us what happened.

- All right, all right. I'm leaving.

- Bye.

Oh, Shelia!

Shelia and Troy together?

Yes. They're together.

They're together

and they look,

you know, she look really good.

She looks what?

Did you hear?

I missed it, too.

I said she looked good.

OK, she looked really good. Mike.

- All right. She look really good.

- OK. Good.

So, I, you know... it was just...

I haven't seen her in awhile.

So it was kind of,

you know, ooh.

What the hell

are you saying, man?

I'm just saying

it was kind of surprising.

It was kind of

surprising to see her.

To see her what?

Yeah. I just haven't seen her

in awhile, that's all.

- You miss her?

- What?

Come on, man.

What, y'all drinking too much.

Troy.

How you doing, guys?

Hey, Sheriff.

What's going on?

Good to see you, brother.

Same here.

Well, congratulate him. You know,

him and Shelia got married.

Right.

Hey, congrat...

Can you believe

he married my ex?

To you and Shelia.

- To you and Shelia.

- Yes.

Thank you.

He what now?

Said he married my ex.

One man's ex can be

another man's treasure.

So, um, she had

that gastric bypass?

No.

Actually, we just...

we just worked out together.

Ooh.

You know what

that means, right?

L... I just can't

wait to see her.

I want to see her, too, man.

I can't wait to see

what working out will do for you.

I'm going to the table, man.

I can't play with y'all.

Hey, man.

Don't be bitter, man.

We're just... we're just

clowning around.

Working out, man.

Working out.

I thought...

I prayed...

that God would save my marriage.

But it wasn't built

on the right things anyway.

I thought if Mike

got right, you know...

if I lost the weight,

that everything would be OK.

It's been hard.

It's been hard.

But it's me.

I did it.

I'm doing it.

That's right.

And it feels so good.

It feels so good.

Oh!

I thought that God

had given up on me.

Yeah.

Because...

here I am in this marriage

and it don't work.

He don't love me,

he don't like me.

But he brought me somebody.

He is an amazing man.

He is supportive.

He doesn't criticize me.

He walks with me.

He loves me through all of it.

You understand what I'm saying?

Oh, Jesus.

I didn't have that.

And I do now.

And...

I wake up.

I wake up with so much joy

in my heart.

Oh!

Oh, God.

Help us, Jesus.

He already has, huh?

I wake up with so much joy

in my heart.

Ah.

You are so beautiful, Shelia.

Oh, my God.

But you are not...

- with that makeup.

- Aah!

We need to get it together.

- This is.

- No, we can't do that.

Oh, my God.

OK, we got to get it together.

I need some tissue.

Oh, Jesus!

OK, give me some.

I need some powder.

First of all,

I'd like to thank everyone

for such a lovely, lovely evening.

I feel very proud to be

the first black woman

to receive this award.

I'm very blessed

to have won an honor

for a book that has given me

such gratification

and information...

and great vacations.

Hey, we really didn't

get a chance to talk.

On purpose?

Come on, Shelia.

Don't be like that.

What do you want, Mike?

I'm trying to listen to Patricia.

Look, I'm sorry about

how all this went down.

Dianne, Terry...

OK? I don't... I don't

want you to be mad at me.

Marcus...

forgiveness, you know?

I want you to forgive me.

Isn't that what

the good book says?

Yes.

I forgave you a long time ago.

Because if I had stayed angry,

I would have taken it

out on Troy.

And he is too good for that.

You understand?

Yeah.

- Yeah. He's too good for that.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Hey, I was your first.

You never forget your first, right?

You did think you were my first,

didn't you?

I just wanted to say

sorry and, uh...

you know, there's this, um,

there's this thing called the 20l80 rule.

Mike...

I know all about the 80l20 rule.

Look... I thank you for helping me

find myself then.

But the woman I am now

is done with you.

So turn around

and go back to Trina.

Your 20.

I say clear and loud...

for everyone to hear...

Gavin...

I love you.

I love you.

And in closing,

I would like for everyone

to remember

the greatest achievement

for any human being

is to love God...

yourself...

and others.

Thank you so much for this.

Thank you.

# Why do you tell me this #

# Were you looking for my reaction? #

# What do you need to know? #

# Don't you know

I'll always be your girl? #

# You do not have

to prove to me #

# You're beautiful to strangers #

# I've got loving eyes of my own #

# Of my own #

# I can tell #

# You belong to me #

# Tell her you belong... #

# You belong to me #

# You belong to me #

# You belong to me #

# You belong to me #

# Can it be that you are not sure? #

# You belong to me #

# Thought we'd closed the book #

# I thought we'd locked

the door, baby #

# You don't have to prove

you're beautiful to strangers #

# I've got loving eyes of my own #

# Of my own #

# I know, darling #

# You belong to me #

# Baby #

# Yes, you do #

# You belong to me #

# Tell me, I want something, baby #

# You belong to me #

# I believe you know

what I want you to say to her next #

# You belong to me #

# Won't you tell her, baby #

# You belong to me #

# Tell her that I love you #

# You belong to me #

# Tell this woman #

# You belong to me #

# Tell #

# You belong to me #

# You belong to me #

# Everybody knows this, baby #

# You belong to me #

# All of your friends #

# You belong to me #

# All of your friends,

all of my friends, baby #

# You belong to me #

# Told me this was going on #

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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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