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If you visit the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and look at Tyler Perry's Straw, you will get two different pictures. On one side, critics' approval is 46%, and on the other, audience approval is 75%. That said, people love the movie, as Popcornmeter still stands based on the movie's over 500 ratings.
A user called Jon S. writes,
"This movie really takes you to the first person experience of grief."
One user there, called Alexandra M, praised Tyler Perry for the film and said,
"Absolutely moved to tears by Straw. Such a powerful film—well done, Tyler Perry!."
Another review aggregator platform, Metacritic, has given it a rating of 56 based on 7 reviews. The audience rating is worse here, with only a 5.0 score based on 20 user ratings. User ratings here are balanced. It's an equal ratio of 35% for both negative and positive. The critical score here is more positive.
IMDb shows the film as average with 6.6 stars based on 6.6k ratings. However, that also shows the film's popularity. It is currently sitting at number 4 there, just behind Sinners, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, and The Accountant 2.
The Story of Straw
The film puts Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson in the center as Janiyah Wilkinson, a struggling single mother living with her daughter Aria, who is ill most of the time. People aren't really great with her, and she is behind in her rent, which may cause her and her daughter to become homeless.
Suddenly, Straw adds new trouble for Janiyah as she comes to know about her daughter's injury that she sustained during a seizure. Devastated, she tries to get that much-needed money, as her boss isn't releasing her paycheck. Not just that, he wants her to return within half an hour.
She also has an encounter with the police, who take Aria away. But wait, this isn't even bad in contrast to what's to come. Straw is hellbent on adding more trouble for already troubled Janiyah.
Janiyah returns to work, but she can't work because she doesn't have work. Her boss has terminated her. Okay. So, she decides to return to her home. But she has no home anymore, as her landlord has thrown her belongings outside.
However, she manages to get her paycheck after she returns to the place where she was working. This is partly thanks to those two robbers who entered the store. However, her boss says that this was all planned by her alone.
She runs from there to cash her paycheck, but it seems she has forgotten her ID. So, the bank can't give her money. She has to pull a gun, which she pulled from the feud with those robbers, on the cashier.
She is like Harry Potter because this dialogue Sirius (Gary Oldman) said in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix fits really well with her.
"You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to."
Things certainly don't get better in the remaining story, but get more depressing for her, on the contrary.
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