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 ...

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 Wiltkinson (Taraji P. Henson) screams in the pouring rain in 'Straw.' The line between reality and hallucination blurs toward the end of the movie, but it does leave clues.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

TSA agent Janiyah Wilson-Robinson was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 79-year-old passenger at Fort Lauderdale airport, pushing the woman to the ground and causing minor bruising, a report said.

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.

At the end of the Straw, Janiyah’s mother tells her in a phone call that the FBI is at her house. She then relays the shocker of the film: Aria is dead and has been the entire day, but Janiyah ...