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I Can Do Bad All by Myself
2009
· Movie
· 113 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4123
- IMDb #5685
- Rotten Tomatoes #2345
- Letterboxd #4192
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3289
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1538
+1 more
- Metacritic Critics #2972
Every rating
42–81
out of 100
Sharply split
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 42, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 81.
See the most contested films →When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids.
Details
- Director
- Tyler Perry
- Writer
- Tyler Perry
- Studio
- Lions Gate Films
- Released
- 11 September 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $51.7M
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