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The Family That Preys
Directed by
Tyler Perry
2008
1h 51m
PG-13
Drama
,
Romance
5.9
53%
61%
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Two families from different walks of life learn to work together.
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Cast of The Family That Preys
Kathy Bates
Charlotte Cartwright
Alfre Woodard
Alice Evans
Sanaa Lathan
Andrea Evans-Bennett
Rockmond Dunbar
Chris Bennett
Cole Hauser
William Cartwright
KaDee Strickland
Jillian Cartwright
Tyler Perry
Ben
Taraji P. Henson
Pam
Robin Givens
Abigail 'Abby' Dexter
Sebastian Siegel
Nicholas 'Nick' Blanchett
The Family That Preys Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Bob Baker
The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
This mix of lovingly-written characters and terribly hokey plots makes for an uneven but occasionally engaging drama.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie plays almost exactly like four daily soap episodes stitched together.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The suds that cascade through Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys more than equal the cubic footage from nighttime soaps like Dallas, Dynasty and their offspring.
AV Club
Sam Adams
While it's wonderful to see actresses as shamefully underemployed as Woodard and Bates on the big screen, even they can't make sense of [these] incoherent characters.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The Family that Preys shows grand advances in the filmmaking education of playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry. It's also his soapiest film yet, an overwrought melodrama of sibling rivalry, infidelity, family business power plays and terminal illness.
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
As usual, the villains are very bad, and the good guys are very noble -- until they get mad and clock their wives.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Whatever its other sins, the movie cannot be accused of wanting for ambition or scope.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
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.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
Though the movie at times flowed like a soap opera with its dramatic turns and pregnant pauses, it kept your attention.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
It has Tyler Perry's trademark trio: sincerity, spirituality, and story. And if he passes on that other "s" -- subtlety -- that's all right.
Washington Post
Neely Tucker
By far the best thing about the enterprise is Woodard. If she's not in this thing, I think it goes kaput.
Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
It's hard to resist the movie's mixture of soap opera, humor and heart-filled homilies.
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
Religion is important to these characters but the presence of Christianity itself is practically incidental.
Variety
Peter Debruge
As usual, morality prevails: Faith and family are key virtues, while lust and greed are duly punished, though Perry is getting better at disguising his manipulation.
Cinematical
William Goss
Exactly the kind of preachy, pandering, tone-shifting, gospel-laced soap opera that [Perry has] served up time and time again to his dedicated audience.
Sin Magazine
Austin Kennedy
I appreciate what Perry is trying to do with his films, and it's nice to see an urban film that isn't a "Gangsta Picture", but he needs to tone down the soap opera qualities and let his stories unfold naturally.
New York Daily News
A smart, satisfying movie experience.
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