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Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Big Momma’s House meets Misery meets Enough. Who would want to combine a Martin Lawrence cross-dressing comedy, a Stephen King story about a tortured crippled man and a Jennifer Lopez melodrama about domestic abuse? Tyler Perry, who adapted the movie from his own stage play and stars as a sassy grandmother. His slapstick painfully grates against the main story involving the grandmother’s bitterly divorced relative (Kimberly Elise). A huge hit, which only makes it more baffling.

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