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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Based around the character of Madea played by Tyler Perry in a series of hit African-American gospel stage plays: I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2000), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea's Family Reunion (2002), Madea's Class Reunion (2003), Meet the Browns (2004), and Madea Goes to Jail (2004).
  
  
• Tyler Perry paid for half of the $5.5 million budget with Lions Gate Films.
  
  
• The name "Madea" is a contraction of the word "mother dear".
  
  
• The script was pitched at Fox Searchlight first but was turned down.
  
  
• Lions Gate Films received the script back in May 2004 and after a week, they greenlit the film.
  
  
• The characters of Brian/Madea/Joe are all played by the films producer/writer Tyler Perry.
  
  
• Producer Tyler Perry was at one time homeless.
  
  
• The house in which Charles' character resides is the actual home of producer Tyler Perry.
  
  
• The character Madea is a combination of the women in Tyler Perry's life, his mother, aunties, and sisters.
  
  
• Madea's outrage when finding the wire hanger is based on how Joan Crawford would lose her temper and mind when she found one in the closet, as her daughter 'Christina Crawford' (who was on the receiving end of some of those hangers) explained in her book "Mommie Dearest".
  
  

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