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Madea Goes to Jail (2009) -- When Madea's (Perry) trouble-making antics land her behind bars, among the cast of characters she meets is Candy (Pulliam), a prostitute whose life is off-track and in need of the type of tough love that only Madea can provide.
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Madea Goes to Jail (2009) -- Trailer: Madea (Tyler Perry), whose penchant for trouble-making lands her behind bars.
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Tyler Perry (writer)
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Release Date:
20 February 2009 (USA) more
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Plot:
Mischievous grandma Madea lands in jail, where she meets a variety of mixed-up characters. | full synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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(127 articles)
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Tyler Perry is NOT a comic "genius"... more (36 total)

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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (USA) (complete title)
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Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, drug content, some violence and sexual situations.
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103 min
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #44944) | Singapore:NC-16
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Revealing mistakes: At the beginning some newspaper articles are shown. One headline says: Student Expelled. If you read the text besides the photograph in the article it spells Shcool instead of school. more
Quotes:
Big Sal: Just shut up & let her talk!
Madea: Thank you, Biggie Smalls!
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References "Survivor" (2000) more
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Off the Wall more

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12 out of 22 people found the following review useful.
Tyler Perry is NOT a comic "genius"..., 12 April 2009
2/10
Author: thomas1652 from United States

"Madea Goes to Jail" stands out in most of the movies I've seen, for one reason only: It was one of the two movies I've ever walked out on in the theater.

I admit it, I only laughed a couple times...but for the most part ,the humor consisted of nothing but shallow, harshly stereotypical and unclassy "jokes". Tyler Perry's portrayal of African-Americans is almost insulting. Not only that, but Madea was only shown for less than half of it! The only thing saving this from a 1 is Keisha Knight Pulliam's performance. She was the ONLY interesting thing about this crap fest. I look forward to more from her, but please, Tyler Perry, no more.

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saddest attempt at creating character development ever! elscorcho86
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so Medea is a criminal? Some Spoilers! Demelz
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