Ingredient #4: Granny Get Your Gun
Meet The Browns
Who: Tyler Perry
What: The bible-toting, lawless Madea does a quick drive-by in this tale about a struggling single mom gets in touch with her roots who heads down South to start a new life and meets her outlandish, 'crass' family.
Madea's Family Reunion
Who: Tyler Perry
What: An unstoppable force of nature, southern matriarch Madea may've finally taken on more than she can chew. She's just been court ordered to be in charge of a rebellious runaway, her nieces are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all she has to organize her hectic family reunion.
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The 'Perry Secret': Doing a little tango with the law is something Tyler Perry freely plays with--especially when the lawbreaker arrives as none other than the aggressive, semi-neurotic, self-righteous, largess church lady of the decade, Mabel “Madea” R. Simmons, aka Madea. With a $50-million dollar box office gross for her film debut in Diary, seems audiences can't get enough--perhaps the thought of drag behind bars is more popular than we think!
"I was traveling, attracting 30,000 to 40,000 people a week in theaters. I couldn't go to the bar, I couldn't go anywhere. They were my training for all of this stuff. So it doesn't bother me. I live a couple of houses away from Jennifer Aniston. That annoys me because of the paparazzi. But other than that, I'm pretty good about it.”
--Tyler Perry