Tyler Perry's Good Deeds

PG-13

Released Feb 24, 2012

1 hr. 51 min.

Drama

Romance

List

36%

36 Reviews

Tomatometer

76%

50,000+ Ratings

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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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Critics Consensus

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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Michael S

Honestly, I don't know what to tell you other than—it's a pedestrian film—and what's more is I've never really found Tyler perry to be a convincing dramatic actor, his voice in this movie comes off as pretentious and unnecessarily self-important.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/26/22

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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

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Audience Member

A wonderful and romantic movie...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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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

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Audience Member

While a little slow, the plot and acting were decently entertaining.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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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

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Marjorie Baumgarten

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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

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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

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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

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Certainly one of Perry's best films yet.

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 9, 2020

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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

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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

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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
Executive Producer: Joseph P. Genier, Michael Paseornek
Screenwriter: Tyler Perry
Distributor: Lions Gate Entertainment
Production Co: Lionsgate Films, Tyler Perry Studios
Rating: PG-13 (Some Violence|Sexual Content|Language|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

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