Comedy, Drama
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee grandmother shows up with a gun! Acclaimed African-American playwright Tyler Perry dares to mix sacred and secular humor with riotous results. Experience his most famous morality tale, now a major motion picture, in its original stage format...complete with live musical numbers!
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
National Theatre Live: Fleabag
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Live
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Spirited Away: Live on Stage
National Theatre Live: Skylight
This American Life: Live at BAM
Newsies
Ghosts
Live!
Walden
The Adventures of Pericles
The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play
Hamlet
RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill
Royal Opera House: Turandot
Michael Mittermeier - Paranoid
SIMILAR MOVIES
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2010
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.National Theatre Live: Fleabag
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2019
Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.National Theatre Live: Amadeus
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2017
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 1982
Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.Live
IMDB 2 | Jul , 2019
An online 'livecaster' with a dangerous brand has a crisis of conscience over her volatile career choice in a future world where jobs are limited and conflict is currency.Santa Claus Is a Stinker
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1982
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.Spirited Away: Live on Stage
IMDB 7.9 | Apr , 2023
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. The film version of the stage production was shot during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.National Theatre Live: Skylight
IMDB 8.9 | Jul , 2014
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.This American Life: Live at BAM
IMDB 8.1 | Jun , 2014
It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.Newsies
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2017
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.Ghosts
IMDB 3 | Jun , 2014
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.Live!
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2007
A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.Walden
IMDB 5 | Sep , 2021
After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sisters attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.The Adventures of Pericles
IMDB 0 | May , 2016
A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre – and another snatches it away. Filled with music and brilliant spectacle, this magical production of Shakespeare’s epic adventure is a delight for the eye and ear as it follows a fairy-tale hero on his miraculous journey to one of drama’s most poignant reunions. A story rarely told – and one you won’t soon forget.The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!
IMDB 7.9 | Dec , 2019
SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe—until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage.Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 2002
The fireworks begin when Madea’s family gathers for her granddaughter’s wedding. As usual, Madea rules the roost, as she and her neighbor, the wacky Mr. Brown, deliver nonstop laughs. Live, love, rejoice...it’s Madea’s Family Reunion!Hamlet
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2024
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill
IMDB 8.5 | Oct , 2010
Is there any possible downside to accepting an invitation from Vincent Price to spend an evening in a creepy mansion that was built on something called “Haunted Hill?” If so, Mike, Kevin and Bill couldn’t find it! In fact they were so eager to join Mr. Price and his terrifying moustache that they riffed the film live, on-stage, and now you can reap the rewards from the safety of home with this live show DVD! Yes, horror classic House on Haunted Hill provides a mesmerizing walk down “people actually used to find this SCARY?!?” lane. Join the RiffTrax guys as they bring their special brand of rapid-fire comedic commentary to every skeleton-hanging-from-visible-wires, clumsy sexual overtone, and a stunningly inept test pilot whose “heroics” typically lead him to bloody his own nose after locking himself in a broom closet!Royal Opera House: Turandot
IMDB 5 | Mar , 2023
In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers correctly, suddenly he holds all the power – and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer all?Michael Mittermeier - Paranoid
IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 2006
With the flaming sword of comedy, Michael Mittermeier's "Paranoid" was on tour live - Alien Brainsuckers, Halle Berry, King Kahn, a woman as boss, a Texan Amok-Sepp, domestic cat, terrorist, World Cup Italian soft eggs, scented candle fundamentalists and disoriented men - Michael gets ready for the last battle and does out all the fools who are not on the trees at the end of the world. Paranoid reloaded - with lots of brand new numbers!