Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

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

Tyler Perry attaches his name to his film titles as though it were a prefix. Hence, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. By employing his eponym as a bragging mechanism, the actor/director/writer effectively announces what comes next, since Perry traffics in archetypes. He has spent his successful career turning the microscope on strong, single black women who've fallen on hard times but remain undaunted by circumstances such as socioeconomic status and cheating, unreliable men, and by focusing on ...more