 The film received negative reviews from critics, but was a box-office hit, grossing $53,125,354.It is the highest-grossing Tyler Perry film which the writer-director did not star in and the highest-grossing Tyler Perry drama.She later played Juanita Leonard, the wife of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, in the 2016 biographical sport film "Hands of Stone" co-starring with Usher and Robert De Niro.