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Will these marriages survive?
Dr. Patricia Agnew (Janet Jackson), a psychologist, has written a bestselling marriage manual based on an annual week-long retreat she and her husband take with three other couples they knew from college days, The purpose of the trip is always to explore the reasons they each got married and to work on issues within each couple.
Patricia and her husband Gavin (Malik Yoba), a successful architect, are trying to work through horrendous grief and what it does to a couple when they lose a child.
Terry (Tyler Perry, who also wrote the original play by this title, wrote this screenplay, and directed the film) has fulfilled his dream of becoming a pediatrician. He and his wife Diane (Sharon Leal), a high-powered attorney, have one young child but he wants another and she doesn't.
Marcus (Michael Jai White) was, at one time, a professional athlete but after he was sidelined permanently by an injury, he ended up working for his aggressive, bossy wife Angela (Tasha Smith) in her wildly popular women's beauty care company. Angela takes every chance she can to emasculate Marcus with her sharp words.
Mike (Richard T. Jones) is a slick-as-snot egotist married to Sheila (Jill Scott) who is beautiful inside and out despite her obesity. Whilst on the way to the retreat site, a mountain cabin in Colorado, Sheila is told she either has to buy an extra seat to accomodate her size or she has to leave the plan. Unsympathetic, Mike tells her she should rent a car and drive the long distance while he flies on ahead with their friend Trina (Denise Boutte) who Mike insisted should come along to the retreat even though she'd be the odd woman out. As expected, Mike and Trina are having an affair and all hell breaks loose when Sheila arrives at the cabin where the other are waiting and she realizes how blind, how deep in denial she'd been.
Also appearing is Lamman Rucker as Sheriff Troy who lives near the cabin and helps the four couples and Kaira Whitehead as Marcus's ex-lover and baby mama who always manages to cause a big scene about Marcus.
Run time: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language.
My personal rating: B
Dr. Patricia Agnew (Janet Jackson), a psychologist, has written a bestselling marriage manual based on an annual week-long retreat she and her husband take with three other couples they knew from college days, The purpose of the trip is always to explore the reasons they each got married and to work on issues within each couple.
Patricia and her husband Gavin (Malik Yoba), a successful architect, are trying to work through horrendous grief and what it does to a couple when they lose a child.
Terry (Tyler Perry, who also wrote the original play by this title, wrote this screenplay, and directed the film) has fulfilled his dream of becoming a pediatrician. He and his wife Diane (Sharon Leal), a high-powered attorney, have one young child but he wants another and she doesn't.
Marcus (Michael Jai White) was, at one time, a professional athlete but after he was sidelined permanently by an injury, he ended up working for his aggressive, bossy wife Angela (Tasha Smith) in her wildly popular women's beauty care company. Angela takes every chance she can to emasculate Marcus with her sharp words.
Mike (Richard T. Jones) is a slick-as-snot egotist married to Sheila (Jill Scott) who is beautiful inside and out despite her obesity. Whilst on the way to the retreat site, a mountain cabin in Colorado, Sheila is told she either has to buy an extra seat to accomodate her size or she has to leave the plan. Unsympathetic, Mike tells her she should rent a car and drive the long distance while he flies on ahead with their friend Trina (Denise Boutte) who Mike insisted should come along to the retreat even though she'd be the odd woman out. As expected, Mike and Trina are having an affair and all hell breaks loose when Sheila arrives at the cabin where the other are waiting and she realizes how blind, how deep in denial she'd been.
Also appearing is Lamman Rucker as Sheriff Troy who lives near the cabin and helps the four couples and Kaira Whitehead as Marcus's ex-lover and baby mama who always manages to cause a big scene about Marcus.
Run time: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language.
My personal rating: B
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