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Big Momma's House (film series)

Big Momma's House
A fat woman in a red dress, carrying a big brown bag, and scratching her butt while walking towards a house
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Raja Gosnell
Produced by David T. Friendly
Michael Green
Screenplay by Darryl Quarles
Don Rhymer
Story by Darryl Quarles
Starring Martin Lawrence
Nia Long
Paul Giamatti
Terrence Howard
Anthony Anderson
Jascha Washington
Ella Mitchell
Cedric the Entertainer
Music by Richard Gibbs
Cinematography Michael D. O'Shea
Edited by Bruce Green
Kent Beyda
Production
company
Regency Enterprises
Runteldat Entertainment
Friendly Productions
Taurus Films
Nina Saxon Film Design
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 2, 2000 (2000-06-02)
Running time
98 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $173,959,438

Big Momma's House is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell, written by Darryl Quarles and Don Rhymer, and starring Martin Lawrence as FBI agent Malcolm Turner. The majority of the film took place in Cartersville, Georgia, but the film was shot on location in California. The prime shooting spots were Los Angeles and Orange County. The film is also notable for being one of only four titles to be released on the EVD video format. It has garnered a significant cult following since its release.

The film begins in an illegal underground dog-fighting arena in Korea, where an FBI agent, John Maxwell (Paul Giamatti), has been identified. John is ordered to be killed by a Korean mob boss, but is eventually rescued by his undercover partner and master of disguise, Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence). Suddenly, a group of FBI agents storm around the arena.

Meanwhile, a criminal named Lester Vesco (Terrence Howard), who was originally serving a life sentence in prison for murder and armed robbery, escapes from his cell by killing the doctor and stealing his car. The FBI assigns Malcolm and John to capture Lester by sending them to small-town Cartersville, Georgia to stake out the house of a heavyset, elderly African American woman, Hattie Mae Pierce (Ella Mitchell; whom her friends call "Big Momma"), the estranged Southern grandmother of Lester's ex-girlfriend, Sherry Pierce (Nia Long), who supposedly aided Lester in his original bank robbery by giving him the key to the vault. After Big Momma unexpectedly leaves town to help her ill friend within a couple of weeks, Malcolm and John sneak into her house to plant security cameras and tap the phones. Sherry later calls Big Momma's house and Malcolm disguises his voice as Big Momma in order to lure Sherry and possibly obtain a confession. The plan works, and Malcolm and John work together on a Big Momma disguise costume before Sherry's arrival the next day.


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