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Meet the Browns
In order to attend the funeral of her father, who she has never met, a single mother travels to Gorgeia, where she meets with a kind handsome man, with whom she falls in love, the thing that inspires her life, but she faces many challenges and obstacles in their relationship, but they manages to overcome them all.
30 March 1964, Newark, New Jersey, USA
20 January 1944, Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
24 June 1988, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA
24 July 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 July 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
November 9, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 August 1958, New York City, New York, USA
June 27, 2008
Master of disguise Perry's tangled web of narrative threads range from poignant to positively awful.March 24, 2008
Whatever progress the man was making, Browns is a Madea-sized big fat step backward.March 24, 2008
To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up.July 11, 2008
The inner-city melodrama is as sticky as ever, but the downhome Georgia comedy is genuinely funny.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.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.March 25, 2008
Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick.October 18, 2008
Moral: guns, basketball = interesting; hospital beds, recovery time = dull, and therefore unnecessary.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 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.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.November 14, 2013
Getting to the end is more chore than treat.