Meet the Browns

Meet the Browns is a 2008 romantic-comedy-drama film released by Lionsgate on March 21, 2008. The film was based on the play of the same name by Tyler Perry. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a hard-working single mother living with one son and two daughters in Chicago, Illinois. After she drops off her children at school, she and her friend, Cheryl (Sofia Vergara), are on the bus on their way to work when Brenda finds a letter with tickets to Atlanta, ... more

Meet the Browns is a 2008 romantic-comedy-drama film released by Lionsgate on March 21, 2008. The film was based on the play of the same name by Tyler Perry. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a hard-working single mother living with one son and two daughters in Chicago, Illinois. After she drops off her children at school, she and her friend, Cheryl (Sofia Vergara), are on the bus on their way to work when Brenda finds a letter with tickets to Atlanta, Georgia requesting her attendance at the funeral service of her late father, Pop Brown. When they get to their workplace, they find that their jobs have been shut down. After Michael's (Lance Gross) basketball game, Brenda and her children are approached by Calvin, a young drug dealer, who is Michael's best friend, invites him to a party. Brenda intervenes for Michael. Brenda apparently has known Calvin for a long time and she knows the real reason for why he sells drugs: he is doing this to cope with the death of his mother. Afterwards,... less