Madea's Witness Protection

Madea's Witness Protection
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tyler Perry
Written by	Tyler Perry
Based on	Characters by Tyler Perry
Produced by	Tyler Perry Ozzie Areu Paul Hall
Starring	Tyler Perry Eugene Levy Denise Richards Doris Roberts Romeo Miller Tom Arnold John Amos Marla Gibbs
Cinematography	Alexander Gruszynski
Edited by	Maysie Hoy
Music by	Aaron Zigman
Production companies	Tyler Perry Studios 34th Street Films
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date	June 29, 2012 (2012-06-29)[1]
Running time	114 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million[2]
Box office	$66.9 million[2]

Madea's Witness Protection is a 2012 American comedy film directed, written and produced by Tyler Perry.^[3] The film stars Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Doris Roberts, Romeo Miller, Tom Arnold, John Amos, and Marla Gibbs. It is the fourteenth film by Perry and the seventh installment in the Madea cinematic universe. It is the fourth Perry film not to be adapted from a play, alongside The Family That Preys, Daddy's Little Girls, and Good Deeds, as well as the first Madea film not to be adapted from a play. It tells the story about Madea being a host to a family that the FBI has entered into the witness protection program due to the fact that the patriarch has been the CFO of a company that a crime family was using to further their Ponzi schemes.

The film was filmed in Atlanta from mid to late January to the beginning of March 2012 and was released through 34th Street Films and Lionsgate. With total box office gross of about $67 million,^[2] Madea's Witness Protection is in the top three of Tyler Perry's most successful movies, after Boo! A Madea Halloween and Madea Goes to Jail.^[4]