An alternate title for this film could be Janiyah’s No Good, Very Bad Day. But audiences can take some comfort in knowing that Straw is not based on real events or people.

How does Straw end? Janiyah is a single mother trying to care for her ill daughter, Aria, but as the expenses from the medical bills add up, she finds herself struggling to get Aria the care she ...

Straw. Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah Wiltkinson in Straw. Cr. Chip Bergmann/Perry Well Films 2/Courtesy Netflix ©2025 Written and directed by Tyler Perry, Straw is very timely and centers on ...

Janiyah realizes the heartbreaking truth in Straw However, there’s a bigger twist that comes with this story. All Janiyah wants is $40 for her daughter’s school lunch.

Janiyah, Taraji P. Henson's character, is having a rough day in Straw. Tyler Perry's new Netflix movie follows Janiyah, a single mom who is pushed to the brink after a series of events leads her ...

Chip Bergmann/Perry Well Films 2/Courtesy Netflix Janiyah Wiltkinson (Taraji P. Henson), the protagonist of Tyler Perry ’s latest feature Straw, is having one of the worst days of her life.

Janiyah’s hard-ass boss (Glynn Turman) reluctantly agrees to let Janiyah leave, but warns her to be back in 30 mintues or less. At the school, Janiyah arrives just in time to see child services ...

Written, produced and directed by Tyler Perry, Straw follows Henson's Janiyah Wilkinson, a desperate mother of sick child Aria who resorts to extreme measure to help her daughter. As Janiyah's bad ...

Now, right off the bat, that's a lot to digest. But hey, I understood the purpose of all the chaos was to build up the narrative that Janiyah had faced so much over the course of 24 hours that she ...

However, after watching the movie over again, many Black folks on TikTok now believe that Janiyah's daughter may have been all along--meaning from birth--and that she never existed in the first place.