WINDHOEK- Tyler Perry, the master of melodrama, brings his latest hit-and-miss melodrama, Single Moms Club, a movie dedicated to ladies, especially single ladies out there with no good exes, try to keep up with work and kids.
The Single Moms Club is about five single moms from different racial and economic backgrounds who are brought together when their children face expulsion because of rule infractions and somehow forcing the mothers to agree on organising the school’s upcoming dance and fundraiser. Although they range from alpha professional to fast-food worker, the women find they have one thing in common: a need for support and an understanding ear. They form the Single Moms Club to help ease one another’s burdens and reclaim their freedom as well as straight talks about how to get their grooves back.
One of the single moms is Hillary (Amy Smart). She’s recovering from a nasty divorce from her attorney husband, who has reduced alimony, forcing her to “let go of her help,” primarily a Spanish-speaking maid who spends more time with her three kids than she does. Another single mom is Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey), a book editor struggling to prove to her otherwise all-male workspace that she can do a good job as partner even though she’s, well, a single mom. May (Nia Long, in a terrific performance) is a journalist and aspiring author, trying to guide her troubled son Rick through the rough waters of having an absentee drug addict for a dad. Zulay Henao plays Esperanza, a woman still under the thumb of her bossy ex-husband, who threatens to kick her out of the house he bought for her if she dares to bring another man home. And finally there is Lytia (Cocoa Brown), a woman with five kids (the two eldest in jail), a waitressing job, no car, and a determination to keep her 12-year-old son on the straight and narrow.
If you’ve been following all TylerPerry’s movies and series you would know that he always knows how to touch all the demographic bases. The movie has been released earlier this year but not yet available on DVD in the country. However, the movie can be viewed online.