I hope it does well

My only interest in this movie is Nia Long. I've become very interested in her career the last couple of years so I really want it to do well.

I've never been a Tyler Perry fan per say but his movies are pretty decent. I think they are mostly geared towards women whether that's his intent or not.

At any rate, my first thought about the success of this film was that it was going to problematic. I had seen the trailer before but for some reason I never payed any attention to the number of white actresses in this film. I think having white actresses in this film will really help it at the box office.

The reason I believe this is true is because for the last two decades or so African-American females have been living the single moms life for a very long time and it has devastated the black community.

Now, typically, a Single Mother is perceived as a woman having children out of wedlock and thus having to raise the kids essentially on her own. There are other kinds of "Single Mothers" such as divorced and widowed which may be forgotten about in the entire Single Mother debate.

The point is, I originally thought the movie wouldn't do all that great because do people really care about single mothers? If you were not divorced or widowed then, other than being raped, you did something that resulted in whatever issues you have from being a single parent. Its like trying to convince people to care about skate borders who have accidents because they are doing dangerous stunts. Its like, yeah, we don't want you to be hurt, but you did it to yourself.

It does take two to tango but it only takes one to say no. If you can't handle the consequences then don't do the act, sex is not accidental. Just like you have to watch your mouth before you speak, you have to watch the downstairs if you know what I mean.

For this reason I thought this film would not do well at the box office. Who's going to really care? Black females have been living this for decades now and whites generally don't watch Tyler Perry movies.

I figured black females may attend just to see their problem explained on film, kind of like a, "yeah, I suffer from this... I don't feel alone" type thing but I don't know how many of them would be drawn simply because so many of them are in this situation so they know they are not alone.

But after looking at the trailer a second time I think the white audience is going to make this film a success assuming they come out to see it. The reason is that it appears at least one of these ladies may be divorced but the other reason is that single mother hood is "new" in the white community. Many single mothers who are white may feel alone in their struggle. And it really hasn't hit middle class white America yet (as far as I know) but perhaps this film will expose it and perhaps they will see what they are headed for as it has already happened in the black community.

I did somewhat have a problem with all the "middle class" single moms in the trailer but you have to do what you have to do to get the story started and attract people. I'll chalk that up to artistic license or whatever.