Ingredient #3: There's Always a Good Old-Fashioned Cat Fight Right Around the Corner
Meet The Browns
Who: Jenifer Lewis, Angela Bassett
What: A struggling single mom gets in touch with her roots--the hard way--when she heads down south to start a new life and meets her outlandish, 'crass' family, following the death of her estranged father.
Madea's Family Reunion
Who: Jenifer Lewis, Rochelle Aytes, Lisa Arrindell Anderson
What: Madea's fed-up niece goes head to head with her overbearing, bourgeois (aka 'bougie') mother, who's forcing her to marry a rich man she doesn't love.
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The 'Perry Secret': Roll up your sleeves ladies and prepare to pull your earrings out! It's on! Guaranteed to strike the universal cord of brewing discord we all deal with, Perry is always ready to throw an attitudinal-conflict-on-the-verge-of-turning-into-a-confrontation moment in his works--preferably between, er um, his female cast.
"I would show the audiences the trailer for Madea's Family Reunion, and the reaction was so huge that I knew it was going to be a great thing."
--Tyler Perry