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Directed by | Tyler Perry |
Written by | Tyler Perry |
Based on | Characters by Tyler Perry |
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Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
Edited by | Maysie Hoy |
Music by | Aaron Zigman |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $20 million[2] |
Box office | $66.9 million[2] |
Madea's Witness Protection is a 2012 American comedy film directed, written and produced by Tyler Perry.[3] The film stars Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Doris Roberts, Romeo Miller, Tom Arnold, John Amos, and Marla Gibbs. It is the fourteenth film by Perry and the seventh installment in the Madea cinematic universe. It is the fourth Perry film not to be adapted from a play, alongside The Family That Preys, Daddy's Little Girls, and Good Deeds, as well as the first Madea film not to be adapted from a play. It tells the story about Madea being a host to a family that the FBI has entered into the witness protection program due to the fact that the patriarch has been the CFO of a company that a crime family was using to further their Ponzi schemes.
The film was filmed in Atlanta from mid to late January to the beginning of March 2012 and was released through 34th Street Films and Lionsgate. With total box office gross of about $67 million,[2] Madea's Witness Protection is in the top three of Tyler Perry's most successful movies, after Boo! A Madea Halloween and Madea Goes to Jail.[4]