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Bookmark this pageMeet the Browns (2008)
Director: Tyler Perry
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From Time Out New York
Those hoping for another heaping helping of Madea may be disappointed (she has only a cameo), but otherwise Meet the Browns offers everything we’ve come to expect from Tyler Perry. Angela Bassett lends dramatic weight as Brenda, an impoverished single mother from Chicago who gets to know her father’s side of the family in rural Georgia after his death. David Mann lends literal weight as Brenda’s malapropism-prone, supper-loving newfound brother. The balance of comedy and drama feels a little out of whack, with long earnest stretches and sudden lurches into broad clowning, but that too is something Perry is known forAuthor: Hank Sartin
Time Out New York Issue 652: March 27–April 2, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, Lance Gross, Chloe Bailey, Mariana Tolbert, Sofía Vergara, Irma P Hall, Frankie Faison full cast
Duration: 100 mins
US Release: Mar 21 2008
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