"Meet the Browns" presents a romantic drama about how one woman's loss becomes her gain.
Tyler Perry once again brings his unique style of storytelling to the big screen in Meet the Browns, a story about a woman trying to keep her three children safe despite increasing obstacles.
Brenda (Angela Bassett), a single mother living in inner city Chicago, Illinois, works hard to make a living. Suddenly she finds herself out of work and deep in debt. When a letter arrives informing her that the father she’s never even met has died, she decides to pack up the kids and go to the funeral. Desperately seeking assistance of any kind, they travel to a small town in Georgia for the funeral and to meet the Browns, her father’s surprisingly original Southern clan. Here, she finds the new family, new friends, and new romance that have been missing from her life.
About Tyler Perry
- Produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry, Meet the Browns is the fifth film in Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry franchise. In this movie, Perry continues exploring single-parent families as he did in his third film, Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls.
- In Meet the Browns, Perry again portrays the outrageous Southern matriarch Madea Brown featured in his 2006 film based on his stage play of the same name, Madea’s Family Reunion.
- The Brown family is comprised of larger-than-life characters from Perry’s stage plays, which he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in at major theaters in over a dozen cities, mostly to African-American audiences. Perry’s 2005 debut feature film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman proved that his plays could translate to the screen and had crossover appeal to other ethnic groups.
- In addition, he wrote, produced, and financed the first ten episodes of the multi-generational family television sitcom, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, and wrote the best-selling book Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea’s Uninhibited Commentaries on Life and Love (Riverhead Trade, 2007).
- In September 2008, Perry will release his sixth film based on a play, The Family That Preys starring Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.
About Angela Bassett
- Meet the Browns star Angela Bassett is an actress and producer, Golden Globe winner (What’s Love Got to Do With It?), five-time NAACP Image Awards nominee, Screen Actors Guide Award nominee, and Emmy nominee.
- She also starred in films including Akeelah and the Bee, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Malcolm X, and Waiting to Exhale.
- Famous for her film, television, and stage play roles, Bassett also wrote the book Friends: A Love Story (Harlequin, 2007) based on her real-life relationship with her husband, Courtney B. Vance.
- Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns
- Director: Tyler Perry
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Rating: PG-13 (for drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements, and brief violence)
Look for Tyler Perry's next film release coming out later this year. For related articles about the movies, read Things We Lost in the Fire, Half Nelson on DVD, and Mad Money Movie Review.
