Meet the Browns (2008)
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.
10 July 1972, Barranquilla, Colombia
6 September 1996, USA
30 March 1964, Newark, New Jersey, USA
7 August 1966, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
25 January 1955, Chicago, USA
1 July 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3 June 1935, Beaumont, Texas, USA
1 September 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 January 1968, Kingston, Jamaica
26 May 1967, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
March 25, 2008
Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick.
March 24, 2008
Whatever progress the man was making, Browns is a Madea-sized big fat step backward.
October 18, 2008
Moral: guns, basketball = interesting; hospital beds, recovery time = dull, and therefore unnecessary.
November 14, 2013
Getting to the end is more chore than treat.
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.
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.
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.
June 27, 2008
Master of disguise Perry's tangled web of narrative threads range from poignant to positively awful.
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.
July 11, 2008
The inner-city melodrama is as sticky as ever, but the downhome Georgia comedy is genuinely funny.
March 24, 2008
To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up.
