I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009) on Netflix
Madea catches Jennifer, Manny and Byron breaking into her house and delivers them to their estranged aunt April, a nightclub singer who drinks and wants nothing to do with them.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb4.8/1011,277 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes61%
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Plot summary
April sings at Club Indigo and drinks heavily, kept by Randy, a married boyfriend with a wife and children elsewhere. After Jennifer, Manny and Byron break into Madea's house, Madea brings the three of them to their estranged aunt April, who has no interest in taking them in. Sandino, a Colombian immigrant and handyman, comes to April's home through church missionary work led by Pastor Brian and Wilma, and she sends him to the basement room. The children's mother, April's sister, died of drugs, and the grandmother who had been raising them has gone missing. Jennifer minds Manny and Byron while April keeps her distance from all three.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film shares its title with an earlier Tyler Perry stage play but tells a completely different story; both works instead take their name from a lyric in the Changing Faces song "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T."
- Perry was not able to produce a soundtrack album for the film, which features 13 songs including two new ones by Mary J. Blige, because of the various record companies involved.
- I Can Do Bad All by Myself received mixed reviews but became Tyler Perry's most acclaimed film, a standing it held until 2021's A Jazzman's Blues.
