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| Directed by | Tyler Perry |
| Produced by | Tyler Perry Reuben Cannon |
| Written by | Tyler Perry |
| Starring | Tyler Perry Blair Underwood Lynn Whitfield Lisa Arrindell Anderson JenniferLewis Rochelle Aytes Boris Kodjoe Keke Palmer |
| Music by | Tyler Perry |
| Cinematography | Toyomichi Kurita |
| Editing by | John Carter |
| Studio | Tyler Perry Studios Reuben Cannon Productions |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
| Release date(s) | February 24, 2006 |
| Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $63,308,879 |
Madea's Family Reunion is a 2006 comedy-drama film adaptation of the stage production of the same name written by Tyler Perry and sequel to Diary of a Mad Black Woman. It was written and directed by Perry, who also played several characters, including Mabel "Madea" Simmons. It was released on February 24, 2006, nearly one year following its predecessor, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. The independent film was produced by Lionsgate.
While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Mabel "Madea" Simmons, must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa.
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The soundtrack was released by Motown Records on February 21, 2006.
Madea's Family Reunion was budgeted at $6 million and opened at #1 in its opening weekend (2/24-26) with $30,030,661[1] and eventually grossed $63,257,940 domestically with an additional $50,939 internationally, tying $63,308,879 worldwide after 9 weeks in theaters.[2]
Small independent filmmaker Tyler Perry has garnered one of the highest wide-release openings to date in 2006, in both gross ($30 million) and screen average ($13,687).[3]
"The number one movie is Madea's Family Reunion, a small comedy/melodrama which grossed an astounding $30.3 million from 2,194 venues. It had a super-hot venue average of $13,787...."[4]
"Playing at 2,194 locations across North America, the film averaged a remarkable estimated $13,788 per screen, demonstrating the enormous breadth and depth of Perry's audience. The debut weekend of Madea's Family Reunion outperformed the opening weekend of Lionsgate's first Tyler Perry film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, by nearly 40 percent."[5]
The reasoning for the film's relative success,[1] according to Steve Rothenberg, Lions Gate president of domestic distribution, is due to its targeted market appeal, "I believe that we're in all the right theaters...I'm not sure there's much room for expansion."[6] To illustrate the point, Lions Gate's exit polls[6] showed 52 percent of the audience were black women over the age of 35.
Madea's Family Reunion received mixed reviews from critics, with Metacritic reporting a 45% approval rating, counting from 18 reviews.[7]
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