Maxines Baby The Tyler Perry Story Trailer

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This documentary film entails the success story and life of iconic movie actor and director Tyler Perry.

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00:00 What filmmaker has had five movies open number one

00:02 of the box office in the last four years?

00:04 Spielberg, Tarantino, Scorsese?

00:08 No, this record belongs to Tyler Perry.

00:11 How do you feel right now, sir?

00:12 - My problem, a lot of things in life

00:13 is I float above it.

00:14 That's just from childhood, that's from abuse.

00:16 So every moment, it's like, you're okay, you're safe.

00:18 It's just emotion, it's just feeling, it's love.

00:21 - Emmett Perry Jr. was his birth name.

00:26 He changed the name to Tyler Perry

00:27 because he had an estranged relationship with his dad.

00:31 - I just could not understand how this man could look at me

00:33 and hate me with such passion.

00:36 - He had some horrific experiences

00:38 that ultimately led to the characters he created

00:41 and the imagination that he had.

00:43 - We were so broke, we used to share burgers

00:47 and talk about these great dreams that he had.

00:50 - As all these people tell me what I would never be,

00:53 nobody said what I could be.

00:56 - The thing that's amazing about Tyler

00:58 is he broke every rule.

01:00 - A studio executive said to him,

01:01 "Black people don't go to the movies."

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

01:06 - Tyler was making hit after hit

01:09 and finally people had to wake up.

01:12 - My mother said, "Don't you ever let anybody

01:14 "tell you who you are, you know who you are."

01:16 - I can't watch it without cringing.

01:18 - I think you crossed the line.

01:20 - What I will not do is change

01:22 because some critics think it's not art.

01:25 (dramatic music)

01:27 - Do not play him small because he is not just

01:30 some lucky Negro turned black man.

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

01:38 - He paid attention to an audience that people ignored.

01:41 - Raise up Tyler Perry, rise up!

01:45 - In the middle of all of this success,

01:47 I'm dealing with my mother slowly dying.

01:49 I couldn't find my way out of it.

01:53 - Everything that went wrong in your life

01:56 is what made everything go right.

01:58 - For this moment to happen for me

02:02 is beyond anything I could have ever imagined.

02:04 - He was resilient.

02:07 He fought the demons, the dream snatchers, the haters.

02:12 People saying, "You're not gonna become."

02:13 I have to become.

02:14 And he became.

02:17 - Tyler, I just wanna tell you how blessed I am

02:21 to have a son like you.

02:23 (dramatic music)

02:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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