Emmitt Perry's Life In 'Love Thy Neighbor'

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Emmitt Perry Jr., best known as Tyler Perry, is an actor, comedian, producer, and screen writer and so on. Born on September 14, 1969, he was raised in New Orleans by his mother, Maxine Campbell and father, Emmitt Perry Sr. Being raised in a Christian setting, as he grew up, he made sure to incorporate his religion into his future work, which made him the person he is today. Growing up, he was extremely close with his mother, but his relationship with his father was very strained. Even though his father was a carpenter and worked hard everyday and was barely home, he was abusive to Tyler and by him being abused, he went into a state of depression. Being that he was African American and living in the south in poverty, his escape from his everyday …show more content…

She and Perry teamed up together to bring Mrs. Winfrey’s first two scripted programs to her network, OWN, a show called Love Thy Neighbor and second one, The Haves and the Have Nots, which aired on OWN network in 2013. Love Thy Neighbor is about the daily life struggles and many triumphs of the Love family. They are a modern family with the mother, Hattie Mae, and two her children, all living under one roof. Hattie is one of the many characters that Perry has created and she has started to take over the scene a little bit. The Haves and The Have Nots is a dramatic scripted series about the Cryer family, residing in Savannah, Ga, who appears to have it all. They appear as this patriarchal family with all of the glitz and glam that any family would want, but what the outsiders do not realize is that the family has many secrets within that if discovered, could tear the family apart and ruin their careers and their “happy” and “perfect” …show more content…

This film is about a man named Bryan, played by Tyler Perry himself, who's daughter is very mischievous. She does not obey her father at all because she feels like he is a push over, and she feels like since he is a push over he should not tell her what to do. His daughter, Tiffany, is just turning 18 and its the day before Halloween and she wants to go to a college Halloween party. Her dad tells her no she cannot go, but her misleading and irresponsible mother, lets her go without any care in the world about her safety. Long story short, the place where the party was held at was a murder investigation site that happened years ago, so it is advertised as being haunted. Tiffany goes to the party, but Bryan is not gonna let her go and have fun without any consequences behind it. Bryan and his best friend play a prank on her and the party goers and they haunt them, pretending to be the murderers that killed the teenagers back when the incident first happened. In the end, the message Bryan was trying to get across was don't grow up too fast, and if you feel like you wanna grow up, at least be a responsible young