The Family That Preys Movie Posters
Release date: Friday September 12, 2008
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Family
Director: Tyler Perry
Studio: Maple Pictures
Producers: Reuben Cannon, Tyler Perry
Screenplay: Tyler Perry
Cast: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Tyler Perry, Cole Hauser, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, Taraji P. Henson, KaDee Strickland, Sebastien Siegel
Official Site: familythatpreysmovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for thematic material, sexual references and brief violence
Available film art:Tyler Perry’s The Famiy That Preys movie posters
Synopsis
Follow your heart. But watch your back.
Academy Award®-winner Kathy Bates and Academy Award®-nominee Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs of two very different families being torn apart by greed and scandal in the contemporary drama “Tyler Perry’s The Family That Prays.” The sixth feature film by Perry chronicles the inner workings of two families-one upper-crust and the other working class-that become inextricably linked by scandal.
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) and her dear friend Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard), a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice’s self-centered newlywed daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) is betraying her trusting husband Chris (Rockmond Dunbar) by engaging in a torrid affair with her boss and mother’s best friend’s son William (Cole Hauser). While cheating on his wife Jillian (Kadee Strickland) with a string of ongoing dalliances with his mistress Andrea, William’s true focus is to replace the COO of his mother’s lucrative construction corporation. Meanwhile, Alice’s other daughter Pam (Taraji Henson), a kind but no nonsense woman married to a hard working construction worker (Tyler Perry), tries to steer the family in a more positive direction.
While paternity secrets, marital infidelity, greed and unsavory business dealings threaten to derail both families, Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin in “Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys.”
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September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
All five of Tyler Perry’s movies have wound up as big money-makers, but they have generally received cool-to-lukewarm reviews from critics (which is undoubtedly why his latest film, The Family That Preys received no advance press screening).
The new Perry film, is an exception, however, garnering quite a number of positive reviews. Indeed, Bob Baker constructs his review of the film in today’s (Monday) Los Angeles Times as a memo to Perry, writing, “Dude, what made you refuse to screen your film for critics before it opened Friday? I’m betting you would have received an earful of praise for your writing and directing.”
Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer is one of those shouting her praise. “Defiantly old-school, undeniably entertaining, Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys is a shiny, two-timing throwback to 1950s melodramas like Giant, those wellsprings of such prime-time soaps as Dallas and Dynasty. The writer/director/actor … whips up the suds with the best of ‘em,” Rickey writes.
Roger Moore’s review in the Orlando Sentinel includes much criticism of the plot; nevertheless, he observes that the movie marks Perry’s “most cinematically polished production to date, [showing] grand advances in [his] filmmaking education.”
Still, there are plenty of naysayers, as well. Stephen Holden in the New York Times writes that suds “cascade” through “this crude interracial fable.”
And Ty Burr in the Boston Globe comments that Perry has served up “a plate of leftovers, a bland, baldly written melodrama.”
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