Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 03/21/2008(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD2
Run Time:
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Lionsgate
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, All Movie Guide
;)
