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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)

Daddy's Little Girls poster
Directed by
Tyler Perry
Genre
drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 143 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer takes an interest in a mechanic who is fighting a custody battle for his daughters against his scheming ex-wife. Their relationship grows as they work together to keep the family together.

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What happens

Daddy's Little Girls is a 2007 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, produced by Perry and Reuben Cannon, and starring Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett Jr., and Tracee Ellis Ross. It tells the story of a lawyer who helps a mechanic in a custody battle against his mean-spirited ex-wife over who will get custody of their daughters. Daddy's Little Girls was released on February 14, 2007 by Lions Gate Entertainment. This is the first of six films directed by Perry that he does not appear in (the other five being Acrimony, For Colored Girls, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Nobody's Fool and A Jazzman's Blues) as well as the first of Perry's films to not be based on any of the filmmaker's stage plays. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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