Tyler Perry\u00a0is telling his life story in a new documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, Prime Video released the trailer for\u00a0Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story<\/em>, which dives into the details of the 54-year-old’s upbringing and path toward his growth into one of the most successful filmmakers of his generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The documentary’s trailer opens with a clip from Perry’s 2010 appearance on CBS’s\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>, noting that, at the time, five of Perry’s movies had opened at the top spot at the domestic box office in the four preceding years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trailer then dives into how Perry, born Emmitt Perry Jr., changed his name due to his\u00a0difficult relationship with his father\u00a0and\u00a0abusive childhood. Personalities interviewed in the film note that Perry “broke every rule” in Hollywood when he broke out with 2005’s\u00a0Diary of a Mad Black Woman<\/em>\u00a0and 2006’s\u00a0Madea’s Family Reunion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The upcoming documentary will also dive into Perry’s relationship with his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, and how her death in 2009 affected him at the height of his success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0Tyler Perry to Make Four for Amazon Prime Video: ‘Welcomed Me with Open Arms’<\/p>\n\n\n\n While an official synopsis for the documentary describes Perry as an “entertainment behemoth,” it also notes Perry is “a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Prime Video, the documentary \u2014 named after his mother \u2014 “is a tender and intimate portrait of visionary and innovator Tyler Perry and his harrowing-but-faithful road to the top of an industry that didn\u2019t always include him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Tyler](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/tyler-Perry-Stars-in-Trailer-for-His-Documentary-The-Tyler-Perry-Story-101723-1-e35cef087562468ebb81.webp\")