| | | ...Because No One Inspires Me More.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dubbed, Dolby Digital (5.1)
A big-screen adaptation of Tyler Perry's hit stage play of the same title, Why Did I Get Married? is an intimate story about the difficulty of maintaining a solid love relationship in modern times. During a trip to the picturesque snowcapped mountains of Colorado, eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. But the cozy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the course of the weekend, husbands and wives take a hard look at their lives, wrestling with issues of commitment, betrayal and forgiveness as they seek a way forward.
"The ensemble cast is solid throughout, most notably a well-padded Jill Scott as a gentle, sweet woman trying to deal with a cheating hubby..." Richard Propes, The Peaceful Critic
"...stands out as [Perry's] most mature film as well as one of the year's best dramedies...[with] a very talented cast..." Scooter Thompson, MovieEveryday.com
Editor's Note
Tyler Perry has ascended to the status of media mogul on the strength of his combination of Christian morality, slapstick comedy, and soap-operatic melodrama. In 2005, his play DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN was adapted for the screen and became the surprise hit of the season. With positive portrayals of black characters and family-friendly--but decidedly not boring--themes, the film appealed to a broad audience, and gave rise to numerous spin-offs. Madea is absent from Perry's most recent film, WHY DID I GET MARRIED? but the subject matter is just as universal, and features an engaging cast that counts Perry among its members.Four couples who have been friends since college take a therapeutic getaway to a Colorado bungalow, where they plan to take stock of their relationships. They are led by successful psychiatrist Patricia (Janet Jackson), who has a picturesque marriage to Gavin (Malik Yoba). Nothing is perfect, however, and secrets and old scars soon emerge, pitting friend against friend and spouse against spouse. R&B singer Jill Scott shines as Sheila, the oft-derided, overweight wife of Mike (Richard T. Jones, GIRLFRIENDS), who arrives on the scene with a sexy young "friend" (Tasha Jones, YOU, ME, AND DUPREE) to shake things up a bit. Retribution and forgiveness follow, with the requisite admonitions and apologies made realistic by the skill of the cast.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: Spanish | | Featurettes: Janet Jackson, Marriage, & The Score | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 9/8/2009 |
| Running Time: 118 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 22228 | | UPC: 00031398222286 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 8 of 10
The work of Tyler Perry, with its wild mood swings between near-Shakespearean extremes of broad farce and intense melodrama, plus its sudden bursts of song and/or religious fervor, has been both hugely successful and critically questionable. The writer-director's latest play-to-film, "Why Did I Get Married?," more smoothly incorporates humor within a soapy self-help framework, as four couples meet in the snowbound wilds of Colorado for an annual marriage checkup. Though fans might miss Perry's genre-exploding daring, the excellent cast injects enough pathos and zing to keep pic percolating...Despite the improbable ease of pic's genteel psychoanalysis, the characters are thesped with enough depth and emotional investment to make their problems feel legit; even the overly simplistic resolutions of the second half register as satisfying happy endings. Nevertheless, one might miss the color and energy of the incongruous farce elements Perry customarily throws in to shake up the nonstop navel-gazing and bourgeois self-improvement...Perry has cast two singers, Jackson and Scott, in key roles, yet has excised the numbers that made the original play a quasi-musical. Meanwhile, the tune-heavy soundtrack features an almost constant sampling of romantic songs by everyone except Jackson and Scott. - Ronnie Scheib
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