It is not until Madea holds the titled family reunion that we see the women truly together and standing up for one another. It is there that the elders of the family monologue their social ...

The same tonal problems that plagued last year's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" resurface in "Madea's Family Reunion." Serving this time as director, besides having written the script and starring ...

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion: Comedy-drama. Starring Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Rochelle Aytes, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Maya Angelou and Cicely Tyson. Directed by Tyler Perry.

“Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion,” a comic drama from the creator of “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” held off a rush of new releases to maintain the top spot at the weekend box ...

Tyler Perry has come a long way from his tough childhood growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Madea star was born Emmitt ...

Most of “Family Reunion” is devoted to upheavals endured by Madea’s nieces: Lisa (Rochelle Aytes), whose glam mother (Lynn Whitfield) is pushing her into marriage with a wealthy but abusive ...

Though “Madea’s Family Reunion” opened more strongly than “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” the overall weekend box office declined. The top 12 movies took in $99.8 million, down 4.4 percent ...

Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.

And it would be easy to say that if you’ve seen Diary—or Cinderella—that you’ve seen Madea’s Family Reunion. That’s a fair critique, but it’s not quite the whole story. Tyler Perry ...

Madea (Tyler Perry) and her court-ordered charge Nikki (Keke Palmer) in “Madea’s Family Reunion.” Based upon Perry’s acclaimed stage production, the movie, opening today without previews ...

tapped into a gigantic African-American audience with its calculated mix of family melodrama, glossy romance, Christian uplift, and irreverent drag humor. This follow-up, adapted from his ...

final-act reunion are Madea’s crotchety brother Joe (Perry, again), Lisa’s conniving mother Victoria (Whitfield), who needs the brutal-but-wealthy Carlos in the family to maintain her glitzy ...