Tyler Perry's character works in the construction business. In real-life, Perry actually was a construction worker before hitting it big in movies and plays.
This is the third movie in which Alfre Woodard & Sanaa Lathan play mother & daughter:
1) Love & Basketball
2) Something New
3) The Family that Preys
Alfre Woodard & Sanaa Lathan - who played mother & daughter respectively in this film - also played a mom/daughter duo in "Love & Basketball".
This film was the second women's "road" picture, in just two years, for Kathy Bates, after Bonneville (2006) in 2006. In the 2006 film, Kathy Bates was one of three women taking a road trip in an old convertible, while in this film, Kathy is one of two women taking a road trip in an old convertible. In Bonneville, the car was a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, while in this film, the car was a late 1950s or early 1960s Cadillac, probably a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible.
Alfre Woodard will play Taraji Henson's mother in Empire.
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