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Meet the Browns
Single mother Brenda suddenly loses her job, then she receives news that the father she never met is dead. Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father and there, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
24 July 1969, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
November 9, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1955, Chicago, USA
3 June 1935, Beaumont, Texas, USA
8 July 1981, Oakland, California, USA
26 May 1967, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
20 January 1944, Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
February 06, 2012
Of the many talented black actresses given a rare chance to shine thanks to Perry's films, [Angela Bassett] is possibly the most talented.October 18, 2008
Moral: guns, basketball = interesting; hospital beds, recovery time = dull, and therefore unnecessary.March 24, 2008
There are a few laughs and some touching moments, but nothing you couldn't get by watching episodes of Good Times and Little House on the Prairie back to back.June 27, 2008
Master of disguise Perry's tangled web of narrative threads range from poignant to positively awful.November 14, 2013
Getting to the end is more chore than treat.July 11, 2008
The inner-city melodrama is as sticky as ever, but the downhome Georgia comedy is genuinely funny.March 25, 2008
Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick.March 29, 2009
After taking some steps toward maturity and shades of grey in his last film, Perry takes a step backward, retreating to broad schtick and black-and-white formula.March 24, 2008
Whatever progress the man was making, Browns is a Madea-sized big fat step backward.March 24, 2008
Meet the Browns is packed with raucous dinner-table banter and broad double takes; sometimes the gags are funny, but usually they're just trying too hard.March 26, 2008
The importance of faith, church, kin, staying off drugs, sharing food, repenting from sin, forgiving sinners, appreciating a good black man, rejecting a bad one, and honoring black matriarchy is enumerated with typical, reassuring Perry broadness.March 24, 2008
To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up.