Tyler Perry's "Straw" nearly doubled its viewership in its second week on Netflix to score the biggest audience a Netflix movie has seen so far in 2025.

Tyler Perry has come a long way from simply being a playwright. Over the past two decades, he's solidified himself as a major power player in the film industry and, through his successful business, Tyler Perry Studios,

Tyler Perry’s Straw puts the struggles of a Black single mother on full display, and she navigates trying to make ends meet during a day when it seems like good news is far away. In the Netflix film,