Boo! A Madea Halloween

Boo! A Madea Halloween
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tyler Perry
Written by	Tyler Perry
Produced by	Tyler Perry Ozzie Areu Will Areu
Starring	Tyler Perry Cassi Davis Patrice Lovely Yousef Erakat Lexy Panterra Andre Hall Liza Koshy Diamond White Brock O'Hurn Bella Thorne
Cinematography	Richard Vialet
Edited by	Larry Sexton
Music by	Elvin Ross
Production company	Tyler Perry Studios
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date	October 21, 2016
Running time	103 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million[1][2]
Box office	$74.8 million[1]

Boo! A Madea Halloween is a 2016 American comedy horror^[3] film directed, written, starring and co-produced by Tyler Perry with the rest of the cast consisting of Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Yousef Erakat, Lexi Panterra, Andre Hall, Liza Koshy, Diamond White, Brock O'Hurn, and Bella Thorne. The idea for the film originated from a fictitious Madea Halloween movie that was mentioned in Chris Rock's 2014 film Top Five.^[4] It is the ninth film in the Madea cinematic universe and the second to not be adapted from a stage play (the first being Madea's Witness Protection). The film was released on October 21, 2016 by Lionsgate and, despite receiving generally negative reviews, grossed $74.8 million against a $20 million budget, making it the third-highest-grossing Madea film.

A sequel, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, was released on October 20, 2017.

Plot[]

Jonathan (Yousef Erakat) and his fraternity brothers Horse (Brock O'Hurn), Quinton (Andre Hall), Bean Boy (Kian Lawley), Mikey (JC Caylen), Dino (Mike Tornabean), Sean (Jimmy Tatro), and Willie (Joey Nappo) of Upsilon Theta invite Tiffany Simmons (Diamond White) and her friends Rain Mathison (Bella Thorne), Leah Devereaux (Lexy Panterra), and a reluctant Aday Walker (Liza Koshy) to a Halloween party. Tiffany's father Brian (Tyler Perry) forbids her to attend and is later aghast at her smutty video chat with Jonathan.

That night, Madea (Perry) and Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis) distribute candy to trick-or-treaters, though Bam steals candy back from them. Joe (Perry) dresses as a clown to frighten the women, with their friend Hattie Mae Love (Patrice Lovely) as his accomplice. Brian arranges for Madea (who brings along Joe, Aunt Bam, and Hattie) to stay at his house to prevent Tiffany from attending the party while he works late and takes his son Brian Jr. "B.J." (Dee Dubois) to Debrah's house, but his reluctance to put his foot down and be firm with his daughter appalls the four elders. To keep the oldsters busy so they can sneak out, Tiffany and the still-reluctant Aday invent a ghost story about a man named Mr. Wilson who killed his family that leads the superstitious adults to hide in the bedrooms.

Upon overcoming the superstition to check Tiffany's (empty) bed, Madea realizes that Tiffany and Aday are at the party, so she crashes it to look for Tiffany as Tyga performs, but gets ejected along with Bam and Hattie after shutting the party down by turning off the music. Upon returning home, the women then put a permanent end to the party by calling the police on Upsilon Theta. Aday overhears the brothers planning revenge against Madea and her friends. The boys pose as the ghost from Tiffany's story, hacking into the house's wiring and plumbing, and sneaking into the attic; Madea, Bam, and Hattie flee the house, pursued by the brothers and partygoers dressed as zombies. Joe stays at the house and knocks out Horse dressed as a deranged clown, who reveals Jonathan's scheme to Joe.

Madea runs into a church where Aday's father (Javon Johnson) is a reverend. Madea comes to believe the supernatural threats are punishment for her sins and hopes salvation will protect her until the reverend's wife Alice (Angela Ray) talks her down. Aday and her parents then reveal Jonathan's scheme with the former adding that it was payback against the women for shutting the party down which she overheard. Aday, Madea, Hattie, and Bam plan a comeuppance for the fraternity. They return to Brian's house with Joe confirming the fraternity's plot. Brian is asked to return home to deal with Tiffany's misbehavior, but he continues to be reluctant to take any real action, not wanting to use the old-school methods that his father and aunt used on him.

Finally fed up, Madea, Bam, and Hattie storm up to Tiffany's room to confront her, pack her things to throw her out of the house, and even take some things for themselves. Tiffany looks to her father for help, but when he refuses, she finally calls him out for being such a pushover with everyone and reveals her knowledge of her mother cheating on him in their house, as well as the fact she knew that he knew about her mother's infidelity and that she was appalled when he didn't confront her over it; this made her lose respect for her father. At this, Brian finally toughens up and helps the women pack up Tiffany's things. He then confirms to Tiffany that he knew about her mother's affair, but took no action and walked away to protect Tiffany and her brother from all the drama and pain. Brian explains that he makes the rules and decisions that he does to protect his children so they can eventually live their lives and make mistakes responsibly. He then issues his daughter the ultimatum of either living in his house with him and abiding by his rules or packing up and going out into the streets on her own. Tiffany finally gets the message of what being an adult is about and apologizes to her father and the women for her behavior and agrees to live by her father's rules. The police arrive revealing that Aday has gone missing and arrest Tiffany in connection with her disappearance.

The next day, the police arrive at Upsilon Theta. Scrambling to figure out what to do, the brothers discover Aday's seemingly-murdered corpse in the basement. The police officers storm the house and charge the boys for bringing two underage girls to their party. When Aday's body is found, the police arrest them, Tiffany, Rain, and Leah for Aday's murder as well. As Aday's parents are asked to identify the body, the female police officer load everyone onto a prison bus with other prisoners and a brawl breaks out on the bus when one of the prisoners (Aaron Beelner) mistakes Aday as his sister. The boys, Rain, and Leah panic until Aday appears, alive and unharmed. The arrests were a prank to punish everyone's misbehavior, with the prisoners being people from Madea's neighborhood.

The boys and girls apologize to the women and Aday for everything they caused. Brian reveals that four of the five police officers are real, not actors as Madea had thought. The police find marijuana in the frat house and one police officer (Domonique Whitten) recognizes Madea. She, Joe, and the brothers flee as Brian and Aday's parents take everyone else home.

Cast[]

• Tyler Perry as:
  • Madea Simmons, a tough old lady.
  • Joe Simmons, the brother of Madea.
  • Brian Simmons, a lawyer who is the son of Joe and the nephew of Madea.
• Cassi Davis as Betty "Bam" Murphy, the cousin of Madea.
• Patrice Lovely as Hattie Mae Love, a friend of Madea.
• Diamond White as Tiffany Simmons, the daughter of Brian. She was previously portrayed by Tiffany Evans in Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
• Yousef Erakat as Jonathan, the leader of the Upsilon Theta fraternity.
• Lexy Panterra as Leah Devereaux, a friend of Tiffany.
• Andre Hall as Quinton, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta.
• Liza Koshy as Aday Walker, a shorter friend of Tiffany.
• Brock O'Hurn as Ronaldo, a frat brother who is nicknamed "Horse".
• Bella Thorne as Rain Mathison,^[5] a friend of Tiffany.
• Kian Lawley as Bean Boy, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta.
• JC Caylen as Mikey, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta.
• Jimmy Tatro as Sean, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta
• Tyga as himself, he performs at the Halloween frat party.
• Mike Tornabene as Dino, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta.
• Joey Nappo as Willie, a frat brother at Upsilon Theta.
• Dee Dubois as Brian "BJ" Simmons Jr., the son of Brian Simmons and brother of Tiffany. He was previously portrayed by Avery Knight in Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
• Javon Johnson as Reverend Walker, a reverend who is the father of Aday.
• Angela Ray as Sister Alice, the wife of Reverend Walker who is the mother of Aday.
• Jason Vail as Police Officer #1
• Andrew Rush as Police Officer #2
• Domonique Whitten as Police Officer #3
• Thomas Miles as Police Officer #4
• Lavell Crawford as Prisoner #1
• Corey Holcomb as Prisoner #2
• Aaron Beelner as Prisoner #3
• Bill Humphries as Prisoner #4
• Coltrane Williams as Frat Boy #1
• Khalib McAdams as Frat Boy #2
• Will Kommor as Frat Boy #3
• Jason Ligon as Frat Boy #4
• RJ Shearer as Frat Boy #5
• Ahmed Zakzouk as Frat Boy #6
• Michael Hampton as Frat Boy #7
• Deance Wyatt as Frat Boy #8
• Bradley Martyn as Byron (Frat Boy #9)
• Mario Rodriguez as Frat Boy #10
• Cody Griffis as the voice of the newscaster

Production[]

Production on Boo! A Madea Halloween began in mid-January 2016 in Atlanta; filming completed within six days.^[6]

Reception[]

Box office[]

Boo! A Madea Halloween grossed $73.2 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $74.8 million against a $20 million budget.^[1] The film was released on October 21, 2016 alongside Ouija: Origin of Evil, Keeping Up with the Joneses and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and was expected to gross $15–17 million from 2,260 theaters in its opening weekend.^[7][2] The film grossed $9.4 million on its first day (including $855,000 from Thursday night previews) and an above-expected $27.6 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and ranking as the fourth-best debut for a Perry film.^[8][9] In its second weekend, the film grossed $17.2 million (a drop of only 39.6%) and, despite facing competition with the newcomer Inferno ($14.9 million), remained first at the box office.^[10]

Critical response[]

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 3.87/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Boo! A Madea Halloween won't win Tyler Perry's long-running franchise many new converts, but at nine films and counting, it hardly needs to."^[11] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 30/100, based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews."^[12] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.^[13]

Accolades[]

Sequel[]

In May 2017, Lionsgate announced that a sequel titled Boo 2! A Madea Halloween would be released on October 20, 2017.^[14]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Boo! A Madea Halloween at IMDb
• Boo! A Madea Halloween at Box Office Mojo