Angela Bassett will co-star with Tyler Perry in Lionsgate Films' "
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns."
In this story about love and family, Bassett will play Brenda, a single mother living in inner-city Chicago who takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father, whom she never met. There, she is introduced to the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. Brenda also finds romance along the way.