Omarr Dixon + Shirley's Movie Cancer

who played the doctor, is a terrible actor. Really, one of the worst. He doesn't know what to do with his hands (which is really kind of the least of his problems).

And,does anyone know what Tyler Perry's mother died from? He mentions that he wrote this as a way of recovering from the grief after her passing. But I am thinking she surely (and hopefully) didn't die of cancer.

I am thinking Tyler Perry has never seen a cancer patient, b/c Shirley has "movie cancer." Terminal cancer patients with 4 to 6 weeks to live are not 60 pounds overweight, as Chandra Currelly-Young is (at least) and the picture of health. People in the final throes of cancer, with 4 to 6 weeks to live, do not have people saying to them: "You look good. You don't look sick at all." And they sure as hell aren't responding, "I feel good." Typically, someone with cancer that far progressed, near the very end of their life, with just weeks to live, is on morphine just to be able to handle the pain and do not, in fact, "feel good."

I suppose I can understand Perry not wanting a Madea play to be melodramatic and make it all about the cancer, but this was just irritatingly preposterous. And Shirley not even batting an eye when told she had about a month go live. Just, OK, I'm tired anyway, I'll go live with God now. Not a tear shed, not even for a moment. You might think she would be sad to leave behind her children and grandchildren. Nope. Let's see, I already said preposterous . . . let's just leave it at that.