Tyler Perry’s Movie ‘Straw’ Ending Explained: Breaking Down That Twist

If you haven’t watched the brand new Tyler Perry film Straw, you’re about to peer spoilers as it’s the entire web is speaking about! The Netflix film, which premiered on June 6, 2025, was once written, directed and produced by way of the filmmaker and stars Taraji P. Henson as unmarried mom Janiyah Wiltkinson. The finishing of the movie throws a significant curve ball at audience to the purpose the place even Taraji admitted she wasn’t anticipating it to finish this manner.

“When I was reading it, I was like, Oh! S**t!’” Taraji instructed Decider in an interview revealed after Straw’s premiere.

Below, Hollywood Life is breaking down all of the finishing of Straw. (Warning: spoilers are forward for the film Straw). 

What Is Tyler Perry’s Movie Straw About?

According to its tagline on IMDb, Straw follows a “single mother [who] navigates a series of unfortunate events, leading her down an unforeseen path where she becomes embroiled in a situation she never envisioned, finding herself at the center of suspicion in an indifferent world.”

Straw Movie Ending Explained

At the top of the movie, Janiyah receives a cal from her mom, who tells her that the FBI is at her house. She then says the surprising bombshell: Aria, Janiyah’s daughter, is lifeless and has been lifeless for all of the day. Aria had a seizure the former night time and was once hospitalized, however she died on the medical institution.

A chain of flashbacks from the day floods, and audience be informed that Janiyah was once in fact residing her day as though Aria was once nonetheless alive. This is the explanation why the important was once stunned to peer her in school, and in addition why Aria’s backpack was once nonetheless on the space. The telephone name that Janiyah were given from the college whilst at paintings was once in reality a telephone name about her late expenses, however Janiyah was once too a ways long gone at that time to just accept truth. She was once residing in her personal international whilst her thoughts suppressed the trauma of her daughter’s dying.

Nicole additionally admits that the police had knowledgeable Janiyah that Aria had died, and was once, subsequently, conscious that Janiyah was once experiencing a psychotic breakdown.

Taraji confessed that she was once “blown away” whilst studying the script and was once stunned on the finishing similar to audience. While talking with Decider in an interview revealed on June 6, 2025, the actress identified that the whole thing “made sense in [her character’s] actions.”

“Because what it showed me was that she snapped a long time ago. She snapped the day before,” Taraji defined. “She was just on automatic. She wasn’t even in her body, to be quite honest. I just played the honesty of her living the life, as if nothing happened.”

Straw Movie Cast

In addition to Taraji, the remainder of the Straw forged options Sherri Shepherd as Nicole, Teyana Taylor as Detective Kay Raymond, Sinbad as Benny, Rockmond Dunbar as Chief Wilson, Ashley Versher as Tessa George, Mike Merrill as Detective Grimes and Glynn Turman as Richard.