TYLER PERRY’S MEET THE BROWNS
PG-13, 100 minutes

A funny, moving romantic drama about the power of love and family, “Meet the Browns” marks another winning portrayal of life by the writer-director-actor Tyler Perry and features a return to the big scree by Madea, the indomitable, law-breaking, fun-loving grandma played by Mr. Perry. Brenda (Angela Basset), a single mother living in Chicago, has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. But when she’s laid off, she starts losing hope for the first time — until a letter arrives announcing the death of the father she’s never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father’s fun-loving, crass, Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she’s never met.

SHUTTER
PG-13, 85 minutes

After an American photographer named Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife, Jane (Rachel Taylor), are knocked unconscious in an auto accident in Japan, they cannot find any trace of the girl they think they hit their car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl’s disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo to try to reclaim their normal lives. But when Ben discovers that mysterious white blurs — eerily evocative of a human form — have materialized on the prints from his most recent photo shoot, Jane comes to believe the blurs are the dead girl, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.