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21 March 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
Check your baggage at the door. morePlot:
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family. | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Aaron Zigman: Madea Goes to Jail (From Upcoming Film Scores. 18 November 2008, 4:30 AM, PST)
WGA West Files Complaint Against Tyler Perry
(From Studio Briefing. 3 October 2008, 10:39 AM, PDT)
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Disappointment for Tyler moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tyler Perry | ... | Madea / Joe |
 | David Mann | ... | Leroy Brown |
| Tamela J. Mann | ... | Cora Brown |
 | Angela Bassett | ... | Brenda Brown |
 | Lance Gross | ... | Michael Brown |
 | Chloe Bailey | ... | Tosha Brown |
 | Mariana Tolbert | ... | Lena Brown |
 | Rick Fox | ... | Harry |
 | Sofía Vergara | ... | Cheryl |
| Irma P. Hall | ... | Mildred |
| Frankie Faison | ... | L.B. Brown |
| Margaret Avery | ... | Sarah Brown |
 | Jenifer Lewis | ... | Vera |
| Lamman Rucker | ... | Will |
| Kristopher Lofton | ... | Calvin |
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Rated PG-13 for drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements and brief violence.Parents Guide:
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USA:100 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #44114)MOVIEmeter: 
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): L.B states that Brenda is a product of his father's old ways, long before he married the mother of Leroy, Vera and himself. However, this would make Brenda older than the three of them, and it is clearly obvious (and also stated) that Brenda is the youngest of them all. moreQuotes:
Brenda Brown: I can pay you back now... for all you did for us. The house, the move... everything.Harry: You don't get it, do you?
Brenda Brown: Get what?
Harry: I didn't do all of that so you could pay me back.
Brenda Brown: I'm sorry. I'm just so used to being taken advantage of and...
Harry: Yeah, that you don't even know when somebody loves you!
Brenda Brown: Love me?
Harry: Yeah. Tell Mike i said congratulations.
Brenda Brown: Hey, what if i told you i love you too? But, i got scared for a second. But I'd rather be scared and with you, then be not scared and not have you.
Harry: Why would i scare you?
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I was SO upset when I saw this movie because it's like Tyler took three of his plays (Meet the Browns, What's Done in the Dark, and Madea Goes to Jail) and used the SAME LINES in most cases. It's like you knew where the story was gonna go in the first 15 minutes of the film. Angela Bassett wore the same 4.5" shoes throughout the whole movie because Rick Fox is so tall and she is only 5'4". I thought it was a bad casting choice to cast two people with such a HUGE height difference opposite each other. I think Tyler is fresh out of creative ideas because he has used ideas from all his plays in the three movies that he has done. So, I can't see his next movie being great. I am not knocking the black cinema hustle, because I am black, but he could have done better to represent black America and made more of an effort. I will say that David Mann certainly brought on the FUNNY (as he always does in the play), but the outtakes were so much funnier than the movie to me. So, stick around after it ends.