Then, in 2005 he released his first motion picture, Diary Of A Mad Black Woman. Even Steven Spielberg doesn’t get such perpetual prominent billing! In fact, he is such a huge part of his products, that just about anything from him will start with the words, “Tyler Perry’s _” or “Tyler Perry Presents _”. Basically, topics usually preached about in church but made into entertaining lessons on the stage and later the big screen. His topics would often focus on infidelity, domestic violence, child abuse and people needing to improve their own self-worth. When he started out these were live plays, and according to Forbes magazine in 2005, he was getting 35 THOUSAND people to watch those plays EACH WEEK (and had already sold over 100 million dollars in tickets)! He’s no dummy, he found his niche and was only just starting to run with it. Most people would consider that R-Rating to be the best thing about those Skinemax movies – since it allowed you to see scandalous silly things on screen uncensored – but Tyler Perry found a massive audience that loves seeing them, and continues to get church groups to organize outings just to watch them. He’s taken the mediocrity of late night Skinemax movies (slang for Cinemax cable movies for anyone confused), added preachy life lessons to each one, and removed anything that warrants an R-Rating. I have to give Tyler Perry credit, he’s literally created a new genre of movies. They’re basically over-the-top, melodramatic PSAs (Public Service Announcements) where you don’t need to be a good actor, the script can be trite and hammer you over the head with obviousness, the plots can be contrived and straight out of Days Of Our Lives, and the acting can be as “HOLY COW, IT’S HIS BABY?!” sensational as a Spanish-language telenovela. I know that these movies are less works of theatrical art, and more ethical/moral life-lessons put together on the silver screen by Tyler Perry. Okay, before I get myself into hot water with my humor (or I should say “crucified”), I realize something. Who watches this garbage? Okay, I realize that’s somewhat of a rhetorical question, because I’ve read enough articles about Tyler Perry to know that he promotes most of his movies with black, Christian church crowds, but by God, if this is what Jesus wanted he must have had awful taste in movies! Synopsis: “An ambitious married woman’s temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness, and forever alters the course of her life.” (Rated PG-13 1 hour, 51 minutes)