Meet The Browns

Meet The Browns (2008)

  • 32% of critics liked it
    (57 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (197,923 ratings)

Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets.… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By
Tyler Perry
Written By
Tyler Perry
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 21, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Jul 1, 2008
Lionsgate Films

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    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.

  • Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

    Unlike Diary, the drama here is buoyant enough to handle the contrast of its too-silly slapstick.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    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.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up.

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Brad W


    Meet the Browns is another Tyler Perry film that seems to be so dramatic that people thinks its amazing, but it was just ok for me, its got good acting and an pretty good storyline, but overall it was just an ok movie for me.

  • Mason W


    Meet The Browns is yet another good film from Tyler Perry. I love the Tyler Perry films with Madea...you can always count on quality and a good message. I love Angela Bassett whom shines as a single working mother in Chicago of 3 children. No assistance and getting into some financial… More

  • Bradley W


    Meet the Browns is another Tyler Perry film that seems to be so dramatic that people thinks its amazing, but it was just ok for me, its got good acting and an pretty good storyline, but overall it was just an ok movie for me.

  • Jeff B


    Once an auteur reaches a certain plateau of unmitigated success, there comes the double-edged sword of creative freedom. While this rare privilege grants a few artists the Holy Grail of moviemaking known as ‘final cut,’ it also means that they will probably not hear the word ‘no’… More

  • William G


    Just as taxing as any of Perry's other endeavors.

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