Tagline: Check your baggage at the door.
In this story about love and family, Bassett will play Brenda, a single mother living in inner-city Chicago who takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father, whom she never met. There, she is introduced to the Browns, her father’s fun-loving, crass Southern clan. Brenda also finds romance along the way. The story is adapted by Perry from his stage play “Meet the Browns.” Perry will portray Madea and Uncle Joe in the film.
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. But when she’s laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time – until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she’s never met.
Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father’s fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed…and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.
Production notes provided by Lionsgate Films.
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns
Starring: Tyler Perry, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Lance Gross, Chloe Bailey, Mariana Talbert, Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Sofia Vergara, Irma P. Hall
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry
Release Date: March 21st, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements and brief violence.
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $41,975,388 (100.0%)
Foreign: —
Total: $41,975,388 (Worldwide)