{"id":62115,"date":"2011-12-22T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2011\/12\/22\/the-marriage-counselor-release-date\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:16:32","slug":"the-marriage-counselor-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/the-marriage-counselor-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage Counselor Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionsgate To Release Tyler Perry’s ‘The Marriage Counselor’ Next Summer, and ‘We The Peeples’ in 2013<\/strong>by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

December 22, 2011<\/p>\n

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Lionsgate has the release dates for two of Tyler Perry<\/strong>‘s produced films, ‘The Marriage Counselor’ <\/strong>and ‘We The Peeples.’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

‘The Marriage Counselor’ <\/strong>will be released on July 27, 2012. This marks the first time after 10 films that a Tyler Perry film will be released in the summer season. Most of his films usually opens in the Spring or Fall.<\/p>\n

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Jurnee Smollett<\/a> <\/strong>stars as the title character, while Lance Gross<\/a>, Kim Kardashian<\/a>, Brandy Norwood, Robbie Jones <\/strong>and Vanessa Williams <\/a><\/strong>co-star. Smollett plays a newlywed marriage counselor who gives great relationship advice but finds it difficult to address issues in her own. Gross will play her husband, while Brandy and Kardashian play her co-workers. Jones will play a smooth-talking client with whom she has an affair.<\/p>\n

‘The Marriage Counselor,’ based on Perry\u2019s stage play, is the helmer\u2019s 13th Lionsgate production in the last seven years.<\/p>\n

‘We The Peeples,’ <\/strong>which isn’t directed or starring Perry, but produced through his 34th Street Films production company, will be released on March 29, 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism<\/strong>, the film stars Kerry Washington, Craig Robinson<\/strong>, and David Alan Grier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The story follows what happens when a child psychologist (Robinson) surprises his girlfriend (Washington) by showing up at her political family\u2019s annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.<\/p>\n

Also featured in the film are Diahann Carroll, S. Epatha Merkerson, Kali Hawk, Tyler James Williams, Melvin Van Peebles<\/strong>, and Wade Allain-Marcus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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