Joe's College Road Trip is a 2026 American road comedy film written, directed by and starring Tyler Perry. While part of the Madea franchise, it is the first of its films to be about her brother Joe. In the film, he accompanies his grandson B.J. on a college road trip.
The film was released on February 13, 2026, by Netflix.
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B.J. is graduating high school and deciding where to continue his education. His friends from his private school, both white, try to peer pressure B.J. into going to Pepperdine University, laughing off the suggestion of the latter attending the HBCU Morehouse College (despite him being accepted) because "there's no need for black colleges" at this point in history. The boys decide they're going to take a road trip to California to tour the Pepperdine campus.
His father Brian hears this and immediately goes to his aunt Madea's house for help, desperate and willing to enact on whatever she says to do. She suggests that Joe, her brother and Brian's father, will take B.J. on the college road trip. Despite Joe's extremist parenting (which he also plans to use on B.J.), Brian reluctantly agrees & convinces his son to go with it under the ruse that his grandfather is dying of diseases.
