Meet the Browns (Special Edition) (2-DVD) PG-13

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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 1, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Lions Gate

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Rating: 1/5 -- Whatever progress the man was making, Browns is a Madea-sized big fat step backward.
Orlando Sentinel
Mar 24, 2008
Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick. Full Review
Village Voice
Mar 25, 2008
Rating: 1/4 -- 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. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Mar 24, 2008
Though Browns contains less proselytizing than Perry's previous productions, it is better off for it. Full Review
WORLD
Oct 11, 2018
Rating: 1.5/5 -- Moral: guns, basketball = interesting; hospital beds, recovery time = dull, and therefore unnecessary. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Oct 18, 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.
Salon.com
Mar 24, 2008
Rating: B- -- 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. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 26, 2008

Product Description:

Adapted from the stage play, TYLER PERRY'S MEET THE BROWNS is a touching family drama and very funny romantic comedy rolled into one. Angela Bassett gives one of the best performances of her career as Brenda, a single mother trying to raise three children, from three different men, in the Chicago projects. After the plant where she works with her best friend, Cheryl (Sofia Vergara), closes down, she can no longer afford her rent, electricity, or day care. But when a surprise letter arrives telling her that the father she never knew has died, and inviting her to the reading of the will and the funeral in Georgia, she has nowhere else to go, so she and her kids, Michael (Lance Gross), Tosha (Chloe Bailey), and Lena (Mariana Tolbert), head down south to meet her half-sisters and -brothers. Her newfound extended family includes the overemotional Vera (Jenifer Lewis), who is suspicious of Brenda; the wacky Leroy Brown (David Mann), who mangles the English language and wears some hysterical outfits; and the steady L.B. (Frankie Faison), who is married to the sweet and caring Sarah (Margaret Avery) and has become the patriarch now that Pops Brown has died. In the meantime, Michael, a high school basketball star, is being pursued by Harry (Rick Fox), a talent scout who is also interested in Brenda. Bassett is outstanding as the dedicated mother who sacrifices her personal life in order to do whatever she can for her children. But Mann nearly steals the show as the wild and crazy Leroy, especially during the funeral scene (outtakes of which run during the closing credits). Perry, the creator of such hit films as DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN and MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION as well as the television series HOUSE OF PAYNE (all of which feature recurring characters), also appears in the film as Uncle Joe and, in a riotous subplot, Madea, who is on the run from the law.

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  • Sales Rank: 68,721
  • UPC: 031398235965
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