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Released
2008 · FILM

Meet the Browns

“Check your baggage at the door.”

Directed by
Tyler Perry
Written by
Tyler Perry
Runtime
101 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A single mother living in inner-city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she is offered a job at a local factory, she sees it as a chance to provide a better life for her children. However, the job comes with long hours and low pay, forcing Brenda to make difficult choices between work, family, and her own well-being. As tensions rise in her home and neighborhood, Brenda must find a way to hold everything together while facing the harsh realities of urban life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Maysie HoyShot by Sandi SisselScored by Aaron ZigmanDesigned by Ina Mayhew

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$42.0M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$42.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $20.1M — 48% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $25.1M — 60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,006 theaters

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