Current:Home > reviews'Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story' shows how the famous filmmaker overcame abuse, industry pushback -AssetTrainer
'Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story' shows how the famous filmmaker overcame abuse, industry pushback
View
Date:2025-04-14 08:59:20
Tyler Perry is ready to show fans who he is in a new documentary.
On Tuesday, Prime Video released the trailer for "Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story" which dives into the 54-year-old's upbringing and journey becoming one of this generation's most successful filmmakers.
The synopsis for the film said the "entertainment behemoth," who opened at the top spot at the domestic box office in 2010 for four consecutive years, was once just "a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise."
The Emmy-winner has previously shared of his difficult upbringing. In an Oct. 6 Instagram post, he shared a clip of a 2018 interview where he opened up about once being "devastated, broke, hungry, homeless."
The documentary's trailer shows that the film will highlight how Perry changed his name, initially born Emmitt Perry Jr., stemmed from his challenging relationship with his father and abusive childhood. The project also focuses on the death of his mother Willie Maxine Perry in 2009, whose health declined as he faced massive career success.
The "Madea" creator's innovation in the industry is another integral aspect of the film, emphasizing how the performer appealed to a community of viewers that were being neglected, the trailer shows.
Among the stars honoring the Hollywood heavyweight is Oprah Winfrey who emphasized that his success should not be belittled and Gayle King who said "there was no denying the talent and the power of Tyler Perry.”
According to an Amazon Studios news release, the documentary dives into "the inner-world of a man, whose story has never fully been told, as he becomes a father and a media mogul with a mission to pave his own road to the top."
Armani Ortiz, who supported Perry on multiple projects, directed the film alongside Gelila Bekele.
"The product is a profound lesson on remembering where you came from to know where you want to go," the news release reads.
veryGood! (16)
Related
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
- Songwriter, icon, mogul? Taylor Swift's 'Eras' Tour movie latest economic boon for star
- French media say a teacher was killed and others injured in a rare school stabbing
- Michael Kosta, Desus Nice, Leslie Jones among new guest hosts for 'The Daily Show'
- Trump's 'stop
- Georgia wants to study deepening Savannah’s harbor again on heels of $973 million dredging project
- New study: Disability and income prevent Black Americans from aging at home
- How years of war, rise in terrorism led to the current Israel-Hamas conflict: Experts
- New data highlights 'achievement gap' for students in the US
- Orphaned duck rescued by a couple disappears, then returns home with a family of her own
Ranking
- McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
- New York man charged with smuggling $200,000 worth of dead bugs, butterflies
- How a newly single mama bear was able to eat enough to win Fat Bear Week
- North Korea raises specter of nuclear strike over US aircraft carrier’s arrival in South Korea
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- As Israel battles Hamas, all eyes are on Hezbollah, the wild card on its northern border
- Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children dies in hospital
- New species of ancient scraper tooth shark identified at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
Recommendation
Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
Hamas training videos, posted months ago, foreshadowed assault on Israel
Israel forms unity government to oversee war sparked by Hamas attack
Japan’s government asks a court to revoke the legal religious status of the Unification Church
The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
How to help victims of the deadly Israel-Hamas conflict
The approved multistate wind-power transmission line will increase energy capacity for Missouri
El Niño is going to continue through spring 2024, forecasters predict