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Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life.
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75
A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
67
Entertainment Weekly
A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.
50
Variety
An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.
50
Diary rather sloppily blends melodrama and spiritual uplift with crass comedy, sometimes in the same scene.
40
Village Voice
Rote melodrama.
