Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

An intimate portrait of Tyler Perry and his harrowing but faithful road to the top of an industry that didn't always inc | dG1fRGpYbGlkSG9QeVU

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00:00What filmmaker has had five movies open number one of the box office in the last four years Spielberg Tarantino

00:07Scorsese no this record belongs to Tyler Perry

00:10How do you feel right now sir my problem a lot of things in life as I float above it

00:15That's just from childhood. That's from abuse so every moments like you're okay. You're safe. It's just emotion. It's just feeling. It's love

00:23Emmett Perry jr. Was his birth name

00:26Changed the name of Tyler Perry because he had an estranged relationship with his dad I

00:31Just could not understand how this man could look at me and hate me with such passion

00:36He had some horrific experiences that ultimately led to the characters. He created in the imagination that he had

00:44We were so broke we used to share burgers and talk about these great dreams that he had

00:49As all these people tell me what I would never be

00:53Nobody said what I could be

00:56The thing that's amazing about Tyler is he broke every rule a studio executive said to him black people don't go to the movies

01:03They were just wrong on every count when it came to Tyler

01:07Tyler was making hit after hit and finally people had to wake up

01:12My mother said don't you ever let anybody tell you who you are you know who you are. I can't watch it without cringing

01:18I think you crossed what I will not do is change because some critics think it's not art

01:27Do not play him small because he is not just some lucky Negro turned black man

01:33There was no denying the talent and the power of Tyler Perry

01:38He paid attention to an audience and people ignored

01:42In the middle of all of this success, I'm dealing with my mother's slowly dying. I couldn't find my way out of it

01:51Everything that went wrong in your life is what made everything go, right?

01:57For this moment to happen for me is beyond anything. I could have ever imagined

02:04He was resilient he fought the demons the dream snatchers the haters

02:08He fought the demons the dream snatchers the haters people say you're not gonna become I have to become

02:16And he became

02:18Tyler I just want to tell you how blessed I am to have a son like you

02:38You