Madea Goes to Jail
Director: Tyler Perry
Writer: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke, Robin Coleman, Jackson Walker and Whoopi Goldberg as herself
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At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in TYLER PERRY’S MADEA GOES TO JAIL. This time America’s favorite irreverent, pistol-packin’ grandmomma is raising hell behind bars and lobbying for her freedom…Hallelujer!
After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea (TYLER PERRY) in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and land her in jail. A gleeful Joe (TYLER PERRY) couldn’t be happier at Madea’s misfortune. But Madea’s eccentric family members the Browns (DAVID and TAMALA MANN) rally behind her, lending their special “country” brand of support.
Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway (DEREK LUKE) is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a case too personal to handle – defending young prostitute and former drug addict Candace Washington (KEISHA KNIGHT PULLIAM) – and asks his fiancée and fellow ADA Linda Holmes (ION OVERMAN) to fill in on his behalf. When Candace ends up in jail, Madea befriends the young woman, protecting her in a “motherly” way as only Madea can.
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Later on the streets Ellen meets Candace with her friend Donna (Vanessa Ferlito) (another prostitute), to whom she 
tells “I’m still waiting”. When Ellen leaves, Candace asks what she meant. Donna says for her to get off the streets. Donna and Candace then make a deal: if Donna gets off the streets so does Candace. One of Donna’s boyfriends finds them, sexually assaults Candace, and declares himself her pimp.
After Candace escapes him (through the bathroom window of the motel room where he took her), she calls Joshua, who brings her back to his place while Linda is asleep on his bed. When Linda finds Candace asleep on the couch in her robe, an apparently jealous Linda gets angry at Joshua, accuses him of having an affair with Candace, which Joshua denies, and storms out after the two argue.
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Madea, for her part, is still struggling with anger management issues. She runs a man off the road – in the minivan 
Cora is driving at the time while taking Madea to an anger management counseling session, which is run by Dr. Phil (as himself). A frustrated Dr. Phil ends up throwing Madea out of his office. After another incident in the parking lot of a Kmart store, where a car is slammed upside down with a forklift operated by Madea out for revenge. Madea makes a quick get away as the hysterical and outraged woman calls her husband a police officer. A SWAT team is dispatched to Madea’s house and they arrest Madea. This leads directly to the aforementioned 5-year sentence handed down by Judge Mathis.
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While waiting for Candace (who never shows up) outside the court house, Ellen asks Josh how he knows Candace. He 
says they grew up together, and then went to the same college where she was made fun of by his college friends so she started to embarrass him. One night when he took her to a party, he ended up leaving with a date leaving Candace at the party, where the friends gang raped her, something Joshua feels extreme guilt for. Josh asks Ellen if she could try to help Candace out. She agrees and gets her a job interview, where the interviewer makes an unwelcome sexual advance towards Candace, asking her just how badly she wants this job, and says he’s seen her file so this should be nothing new. Candace gives it to him in the groin and storms out, telling Ellen “Your Christian help ain’t so Christian”, and walks away.
Candace shows up outside Josh’s apartment later, apparently undergoing withdrawal symptoms from drugs. Josh, coming home after a night out with Linda, brings Candace in his apartment, covering her with a blanket and reassuring her, which angers Linda (who strongly disapproves of any help Josh is giving to Candace because she is a prostitute), saying he’s never been like that for her, and she storms out. Josh tries to go after her, but Candace begs him to stay with her.
Later at the district attorney’s office, Joshua’s friend Chuck (another lawyer in the office) runs into Linda, whom he discovers is falsifying Candace’s file to deliberately get her sent to jail, and apparently has been doing this with other defendants as well. Linda tells him to keep his mouth shut or she’ll tell the head ADA that Chuck cheated (on his bar exam) to get his job.
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Candace, having run away from Josh’s apartment, is back on the streets working her “job”, and gets picked up by an undercover cop.
When Candace ends up in jail, she discovers Donna also in jail. Madea is also in jail, adjusting to her cellmate, T.T., 
who makes “Brownies for her Brownie” and is in jail for killing 18 men. Madea befriends Candace, protecting her in a “motherly” way as only Madea can (i.e., beating up a fellow inmate that was trying to come on to Candace). Candace, Madea, and Donna all attend a class taught by Ellen at the jail, mostly to get time off of their sentences.
After about five months of jail time, only on Joshua’s wedding day does Chuck, who is Joshua’s best man at the wedding, finally get up the nerve to tell Joshua the truth as to why Candace actually went to jail.
During the wedding ceremony, when it’s time for Joshua to say his vows to Linda, he tells the entire congregation, with their boss in attendance, that Linda has been falsifying records to get convictions. Josh leaves a stunned Linda at the altar; still in his wedding tuxedo, he then rushes to the jail where he kisses Candace and admits that he loves her.
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Memorable qoutes from the movie:
Madea: Hell to the yeah!
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Madea: I’m Madea! Ma to the damn D-E-A!
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Madea: [to Mr. Brown] God don’t like you… He grew you in a petri dish!
Dr. Phil: What is wrong with you? Why do you feel the need that you gotta “get” somebody all the time?
Madea: Well when you gettin’ “got” and somebody done “got” you and you go “get” them, when you get ‘em everybody’s gon’ get got.
Dr. Phil: Yea but you’re gettin’ the gotters when they didn’t do anything to even get you.
Madea: Yea but if the gotters get me I’m gonna get my glock.
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Madea: Cora do me a favor.
Cora: What?
Madea: Put the shut, to the up. Okay? Shut to the up.
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Cora: I’m having some me time.
Madea: Did I ask you for some me time? Did I ever ask you for anything? I never asked you for nothing!
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Big Sal: Just shut up & let her talk!
Madea: Thank you, Biggie Smalls!
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Madea: [car behind her is honking] I don’t know what you blowing at me for but keep blowing.
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Madea: [about how sweet T.T. is] What’re you in here for, stealing flowers? What’d you do, steal candy from the girl scouts?
T.T.: I murdered 18 men.
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Madea: You’re in here going on about what your daddy did to you. Your daddy is out there enjoying his life while you’re in prison. You’re here because of what YOU did.
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Joshua Hardaway: When we were in college, the others made fun of her, about her clothes and her hair, and I started avoiding her. One night, I had a date, and the football team said they would keep her company…
[crying]
Joshua Hardaway: I came back that night and went into my room… and they… they raped herm, and I didn’t do nothing about it. I’m so sorry.
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Candace Washington: What you gonna do? Beat me with your Bible every five minutes like my Grandma did?
Tanya: First of all I don’t know your Grandma, and second of all I don’t carry a Bible, it’s at home on my mantel.
Donna: Don’t need to carry it when you know every word of it.
Tanya: You should know it.
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