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Tyler Perry's Good Deeds

Play trailer Poster for Tyler Perry's Good Deeds PG-13 Released Feb 24, 2012 1h 51m Drama Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
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For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield (Thandie Newton), a struggling single mother who has just been evicted. Wesley offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, Wesley finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.
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Tyler Perry's craftmanship as a director continues to improve, but his stories are still the same ol' hoary, pretentious melodramas.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle The melodramatic film has numerous light and comical touches, and the performances are uniformly good. The film's pace, however, has the consistency of molasses. Rated: 2/5 Mar 3, 2012 Full Review Keith Uhlich Time Out A ridiculously redemptive finale negates almost all of the preceding dramatic tension and resurrects a cloying Richard Marx chestnut to boot. Rated: 2/5 Feb 26, 2012 Full Review Wesley Morris Boston Globe Whose life, Wesley asks in the movie's narration, is he living? Judging from all the sterile office and apartment space and his mile-long face, I'd say Bruce Willis's in "The Sixth Sense.'' Rated: 1.5/4 Feb 25, 2012 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Certainly one of Perry's best films yet. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 9, 2020 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Tyler Perry has done his own good deed in bringing us Good Deeds. He doesn't need to hide behind Madea anymore. Nov 26, 2019 Full Review Mattie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Perry knows what he's doing, he knows what buttons to push and when, and he handles it all with supreme confidence. Rated: 3/4 Jun 8, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Deyanira V ✨✨✨✨✨This is a elegant and well made movie. Wonderful storyline and very realistic. Great Job! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Audience Member This was a great film imo. Shows the character and misinterpretation that many can hold on successful men in today’s society. Don’t be quick to rule a business owner out as selfish or mean. Some of us have more empathy then the rest. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/14/20 Full Review Audience Member A wonderful and romantic movie... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review david b Enjoyable film. Shame it's another one of those 'experts' just get it so wrong movies. Rom Com, if you like them, you'll like this I'm sure. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member While a little slow, the plot and acting were decently entertaining. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Crushingly bad. Tyler Perry is the only director that would willingly cast Tyler Perry in a movie. So much of this movie relies on a suspension of disbelief that amounts to insanity in order to buy the melodramatic shenanigans. None of the characters make sense, from the spineless CEO (CEO's are not known for indecision) who changes his entire personality in the span of 2 days, beginning an hour into this movie, to the childish brother who may or may not be capable of running this company, to the unhinged single mother who constantly endangers her child (I was relieved when social services arrived to take Ariel away, and crushed when Lindsey regained custody in the next scene), to the mother who arranges her son's marriage to a realtor (if she was trying to maintain a high social class, she failed) who has absolutely no redeeming characteristics and an outright venomous mentality to one of her sons... The only character I could sympathize with was Natalie, the film's antagonist, who is vilified in the movie's logic by not being interested in children despite a friend who cannot stop talking about how her entire life is dominated by her own children. Unfortunately, because she is the antagonist, the audience does not learn much about her; it is a shame, as her apparent mind-control abilities presented in the first scene are never explained. The plot is some morality tale nonsense, which, while easy to follow, is too exhausting in its cliched triteness for me to relate here. I was much more occupied with the gaping plot holes and general lack of logic and reality used in the story. The entire movie is little more than a church-play, fan fiction interpretation of American Beauty. Even as a lover of bad movies, this particular film is unwatchable. It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield (Thandie Newton), a struggling single mother who has just been evicted. Wesley offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, Wesley finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.
Director
Tyler Perry
Producer
Tyler Perry, Ozzie Areu, Paul Hall
Screenwriter
Tyler Perry
Distributor
Lions Gate Entertainment
Production Co
Lionsgate Films, Tyler Perry Studios
Rating
PG-13 (Sexual Content|Language|Some Violence|Thematic Material)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 24, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 12, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$35.0M
Runtime
1h 51m
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