The Tyler Perry Experience continues with "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which delivers what his mostly black and female audience wants: soap opera and broad comedy leavened with a Christian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Lionsgate Films Madea Goes to Jail is a 2009 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry. It follows ...

Perry, the Atlanta-based comedy factory, pulls out all the stops to stimulate his box office (it’s been sliding in recent years) with this Madea farce. His growing savvy as a movie-maker runs smack ...

The Tyler Perry Experience continues with "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which delivers what Perry's mostly black and female audience wants: soap opera and broad comedy leavened with a Christian ...

Is that Oscar nominee Viola Davis playing a straight-talking prison preacher in Tyler Perry’s latest, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail? And Dr. Phil? And Tom Joyner? Steve Harvey? Judge Mathis? The ...

On Oscar weekend, Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail” produced some needed gold for struggling Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. The new comedy shot to No. 1 at the box office with three-day estimated ...

Just as sure as Madea is going to jail, RonReaco Lee is a dream guy. The actor with the boyish good looks is back in action in a big way as Derek Luke’s best friend in Tyler Perry’s new release “Madea ...

The law of diminishing returns catches up with Tyler Perry in this wildly uneven effort. Once again, Perry has concocted an ungainly mix of broad comedy, comically violent slapstick, sudsy ...

Is that Oscar nominee Viola Davis playing a straight-talking prison preacher in Tyler Perry’s latest, “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail”? And Dr. Phil? And Tom Joyner? Steve Harvey? The cast of “The ...

Madea Goes to Jail would’ve benefited from being a straight-up comedy. The film makes use of an obvious gimmick, as writer-director Tyler Perry dresses in drag to portray the loud-mouthed old woman ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Madea Goes to Jail is not about Madea. She’s a smoke screen, a lure, a wriggling worm on a hook ...