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      Meet the Browns

      2008, Comedy/Drama, 1h 40m

      58 Reviews 25,000+ Ratings

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      Angela Bassett's considerable charms can't compensate for Meet the Browns' incessant melodrama and scattered narrative threads. Read critic reviews

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      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.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Language|Drug Content|Brief Violence|Sexual References|Thematic Elements)

      • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Tyler Perry

      • Producer: Tyler Perry, Reuben Cannon

      • Writer: Tyler Perry

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

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      • Box Office (Gross USA): $41.9M

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      • Distributor: Lionsgate Films

      • Production Co: Tyler Perry Company

      • Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

      • Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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      • May 03, 2008

        This was a funny one, but it is not as good as the other plays. Brown nevers fails to crack me up though "this is your granddaddy this is your granddaddy"

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      • Apr 22, 2008

        Sort of funny, but probably better if you were actually in the audience, this isn't the film version which I would like to see

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