Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

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  • Opened March 21, 2008 
  • 1 hr 40 min
  • PG-13 | drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements and brif violence

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 13+. More on child suitability

  • Single mother Brenda (Angela Bassett) suddenly loses her job, then she receives news that the father she never met is dead. With nothing to lose, she gathers her brood and heads to Georgia, where she meets her father's uproarious family for the first time and finds the tentative beginnings of a new romance. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, Frankie R. Faison, Jennifer Lewis
  • Director: Tyler Perry
  • Genres: Comedy, Romance

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by Asianfreak

91 out of 100 The only good Tyler Perry comedy that's thoughtful, often-funny, and heart-warming....

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

The women of Perry's army will come out feeling they've been well-served, and for the rest of us there's Bassett, getting her groove back after a spate of less than worthy roles. Perry's getting his groove, too - I give him two more films and an A-list cameraman. Read full review

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Variety
| Joe Leydon

Often plays more like "Tyler Perry's Greatest Hits" as it recycles various elements from the writer-director's earlier works. Read full review

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The New York Times
| A.O. Scott

What he serves up -- a mixture of moralism and forgiveness, semibawdy humor and cautionary drama, mockery and affection -- may sometimes lack coherence, but never integrity. Read full review

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Rick Fox and Angela Bassett in "Meet the Browns."