“Janiyah did scare me a lot…,” Henson told PEOPLE ahead of the movie's release. “I was drawn to this character because I love giving a voice to the voiceless.

Sherri Shepherd also stars in this feature about a single mother who gets caught up in a robbery scheme while caring for her sick daughter.

Janiyah Wiltkinson (Taraji P. Henson) is a single mother working two jobs, and struggling to provide for her young daughter, Aria, who is sick and has seizures.

The movie finds Janiyah at her absolute breaking point. Perry has spoken about how this, while not based on a true story, reflects what real people have to go through in harsh situations.

Straw centers on Taraji P. Henson's Janiyah, a worn-down single mother pushed to her breaking point. The film builds to a shocking finale, complete with a twist that flips the entire story on its ...

The new Tyler Perry movie on Netflix, Straw, is a tense, emotional thriller that takes over the course of one very bad day for protagonist Janiyah Wiltkinson. Played by Oscar-nominated actor ...

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.

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 ...