Meet the Browns / Lionsgate ; Tyler Perry Studios ; Reuben Cannon Productions ; produced by Reuben Cannon ; produced, written and directed by Tyler Perry.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 23593 | LionsgateLanguage: English Subtitle language: Spanish Publisher: Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, 2008Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
- Director of photography, Sandi Sissel ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music by Aaron Zigman ; costume designer, Keith G. Lewis ; production designer, Ina Mayhew.
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Main Library | DVD | New | COMEDY MEET THE | Available | 33111010012330 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Suddenly let go from her job with no warning to speak of, the eternally optimistic mother begins to experience a suffocating sense of hopelessness for the very first time in her life. When Brenda receives a death notice claiming that the father she has never met has passed away, she quickly gathers up the kids and sets out for Georgia to attend the funeral. Upon arriving in the Deep South, the once fretful mother is pleasantly surprised to discover that there is a whole side of the family she never knew existed. A crass but good-natured clan that welcomes Brenda and her children with open arms, the Browns' lazy summer afternoons and frequent trips to the county fair offer a much-needed contrast to the stress of surviving in inner city Chicago. Writer/director/actor Perry reprises his role as indomitable, law-breaking grandmother Madea in a comedy that proves sometimes second chances come when you least expect it. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Widescreen format on side A, full-frame format on side B.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Based on the play by Tyler Perry.
Director of photography, Sandi Sissel ; editor, Maysie Hoy ; music by Aaron Zigman ; costume designer, Keith G. Lewis ; production designer, Ina Mayhew.
Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, Frankie Faison, Jenifer Lewis, Lance Gross, Sofia Vergara, Lamman Rucker, Tamela Mann, David Mann, Irma P. Hall, Lavan Davis, Philip Van Lear, Tyler Perry.
Brenda grew up with some incredible hardships. She had a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a 'father.' Now, Brenda is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral in Georgia, she's not sure how to feel. Growing up, Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. Besides, there is always the chance that her father left her a little money.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements and brief violence.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) and widescreen (1.78:1) presentations; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0.
In English or dubbed Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.