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Jun 29, 2012 · Edit page. Madea's Witness Protection: Directed by Tyler Perry. With Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Doris Roberts. A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea's southern home.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Tyler Perry
- 2012-06-29
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Madea's Witness Protection is the 8th film in the Madea series. . The film was released on June 29, 2012. This film isn't based on a play.
George Needleman, a nerdy, high level CFO in New York City, promises his son that he will take him to his Saturday afternoon baseball game after he gets back from the office. He gets to his office and arrives to a harrowing scene; his co-workers are shredding documents and are in a state of chaos. He sees his boss, who informs him that his company is a Ponzi scheme run by the mob. He is being accused of spearheading the scheme and laundering funds and has to enter his family into a witness protection program. The program relocates them to a refuge where no one will think to look for them: Madea and Joe's house in Georgia.
Meanwhile, Jake - whose elderly, ailing father is a church pastor who has put him in charge of the church's mortgage fund - tries to rob Madea, but fails miserably. Jake, who has a criminal past but whose father trusts that he has turned over a new leaf, is trying to recover church funds that he has invested in Needleman's company without his father's knowledge or consent, only to lose the entire investment in the Ponzi scheme.
The Needlemans' first meeting with Madea and Joe is awkward and bodes poorly for how everyone will get along. Made points out to Brian one tiny problem: she lives in an all-black neighborhood and the Needlemans are white. However, over time, Madea helps Kate and Cindy relate better to each other and to other family members, while Joe and Kate help George become more confident, more in touch with his surroundings and people around him, and more effective in channeling his emotions. Barbara displays dual sensibilities about "colored people". On one hand, she mistakes Madea for a domestic named Sadie, treats "Sadie" imperiously, and threatens to get her fired. On the other hand, she recognizes Joe as a man she slept with years ago (and George's biological father), and relates to him seductively; she also enjoys Negro spirituals and repeatedly asks to be taken to the African American church down the street from Madea's house.
Pastor Nelson's sermon inspires George to recognize a pattern in his company's records that explains where 10% of the stolen funds have been stashed. After church, watching Whoopi Goldberg's Oda Mae Brown character in Ghost inspires George to involve Madea in a plan to redivert funds from the "stashed" accounts back to the charities whose investments were stolen in the Ponzi scheme. The plan requires George (who disguises himself as a Frenchman to avoid detection by the Malone mob "family"), Jake, and Madea (who assumes the identity of an upscale woman named Precious Jackson) to travel to New York City, and for "Precious" to meet with a bank manager to transfer funds from the laundered accounts to the legitimate charities. Madea successfully accomplishes her mission, although she improvises both an expansion of her assumed identity (by pretending to be the oldest Jackson sister) and of the accounts to which "Precious' funds are transferred by having a portion of the money sent to her real bank account, unbeknownst to George and Jake.
When George and Jake begin to share their plan with Brian, he cuts them off and advises them it's illegal. However, after they pull off the caper, Brian informs George that his cooperation with the authorities and his successful efforts to return the charities' funds have given Brian leverage to dismiss the charges against George. Kate points out to George that the situation has strengthened their relationship and their family, and that it is a blessing in disguise. Upon leaving Madea's house, Cindy and Howie ask if they can come back to visit but both Madea and Joe immediately decline (though Madea does so in a sweet demeanor), despite the fact that since George is Joe's son, the Needlemans are biologically Madea's family.
Before returning to New York, the Needlemans visit Pastor Nelson's church one last time. The Pastor and Jake burn the mortgage papers and the entire congregation celebrates the mortgage's being paid off, and the Needlemans enjoy the Negro spirituals. Madea also enjoys the spiritual music from her front porch, celebrating her new wealth.
Eugene Levy as George Needleman
Tyler Perry as Madea / Joe / Brian
Denise Richards as Kate Needleman
Romeo Miller as Jake
George Needleman ( Eugene Levy) is a nerdy, high level CFO in New York City who lives with his second wife Kate ( Denise Richards ), his mother Barbara ( Doris Roberts ), his troubled youth teenage daughter Cindy ( Danielle Campbell) from an earlier marriage, and his pre-teen son Howie (Devan Leos) in nearby suburban Connecticut.
1 Credit. Tyler Perry. Screenwriter. 1 Credit. Tyler Perry. Actor. 27 Credits. Tyler Perry. Madea/Uncle Joe/Brian. Eugene Levy. George Needleman. Romeo Miller. Jake. Denise Richards. Kate...
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Film. For years, George Needleman, the gentle CFO of a Wall Street investment bank, has been living with his head in the clouds. His frustrated second wife, Kate, has reached her limit taking care of his senile mother, Barbara.
Jun 29, 2012 · In Tyler Perry's Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection, Eugene Levy plays George Needleman, the CFO of a corporation that is about to be exposed as nothing more than a Ponzi scheme that stole millions from various charities.
For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme.
