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Film: Madeas Family Reunion

2006 movie directed by Tyler Perry.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.

Tropes:

Atlanta: Takes place there.
Chekhov's Gun: About the boiling hot grits.
Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off
Dirty Old Man: Joe, Madea's brother
Domestic Abuser: Carlos, Lisa's fiance
Establishing Shot: A very long one at the beginning to show that it is in Atlanta.
Evil Matriarch: Vanessa and Lisa's mother, Victoria and how.
Falling in Love Montage: Vanessa and Frankie, and an inversion later on with Carlos and Lisa showing how much he abused her.
Family Disunion
Insult Backfire: When Victoria was told she would rot in hell, she responds "I vacation there!"
Rape as Drama: Vanessa was dolled up for her stepfather to rape her so that he wouldn't leave her mother.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Vanessa and Frankie
Stop Being Stereotypical: The wedding planner tells Madea this.
Would Hit a Girl: Well, Carlos isn't the film's antagonist for nothing...
Why Waste a Wedding?: Near the end, Lisa decides to cancel her wedding to Carlos after he abused her. The wedding planner laments that her lavish Paris-themed wedding will not be used. Vanessa's boyfriend Frankie decides to propose to her right then. She accepts and they get married.