Madea's Big Happy Family - DVD

Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. But Tammy, Kimberly and Byron are too distracted by their own problems Tammy can't manage her unruly children or her broken marriage; Kimberly is gripped with anger and takes it out on her husband; and Byron, after spending two years in jail, is under pressure to deal drugs again. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how With a lot of tough love, laughter - and the revelation of a long-buried family secret.

Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.

Tyler Perry follows up his DIARY OF a MAD BLACK WOMAN with more of his unique fusion of soapy melodrama, poetry, spirituality, romance, and raucous humor based on his popular stage play. This time around, the drama centers on a pair of half-sisters struggling to overcome the oppression of their materialistic mother (Lynn Whitfield). Weak-willed daughter Lisa (Rochelle Ayetes) is being pushed into marriage with an abusive investment banker (Blair Underwood), while Vanessa (Lisa Arrindell Anderson) is unable to trust the love of too-good- to-be-true Brian (Boris Kadjoe). Director Tyler Perry Star Lynn Whitfield, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Rochelle Ayetes, Boris Kadjoe Special Features Widescreen - (unspecified) Audio Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English, Spanish Closed Captioned - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional Additional Material Audio Commentary - Tyler Perry - Star/Director Behind the Scenes - Music Featurettes - 1. Marriage Madea Style 2. Gayner Plantation Making of Deleted Scenes Trailers Interactive Features Interactive Menus Year of 2006 SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION / O.S.T. MOTB000621202.