The Family That Preys
Despite their differences in social class, Charlotte and Alice are good friends for many years. That friendship is put to the ultimate test, however, when their adult children begin to act out in ways that neither parent ever saw coming.
6 March 1974, Oxford, England, UK
12 June 1974, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
14 September 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 March 1973, San Miguel, El Salvador
1 March 1949, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
5 February 1962, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
14 September 1965, Marietta, Georgia, USA
12 September 1985, Douglasville, Georgia, USA
1967
14 December 1975, Patterson, Georgia, USA
27 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1975, Santa Barbara, California, USA
19 September 1971, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1961, Jamaica, New York, USA
September 29, 2008
(Tyler) Perry, a cinematic one-man band who wrote the script, produces, directs and plays the role of a decent husband and construction worker, is still growing as a filmmaker.
September 25, 2008
To call The Family That Preys a transitional effort would be accurate and fair
September 19, 2008
It has Tyler Perry's trademark trio: sincerity, spirituality, and story. And if he passes on that other "s" -- subtlety -- that's all right.
December 17, 2009
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.
September 15, 2008
By far the best thing about the enterprise is Woodard. If she's not in this thing, I think it goes kaput.
February 09, 2012
Whatever its other sins, the movie cannot be accused of wanting for ambition or scope.
September 15, 2008
The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip.
September 15, 2008
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.
October 08, 2008
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.
September 15, 2008
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.
September 15, 2008
The movie plays almost exactly like four daily soap episodes stitched together.
September 18, 2008
This snail-paced film might as well take place in the 1950s, since it seems to have been inspired by one those Hollywood melodramas in which one company employs the entire town, and the only places free of corruption are the church and the local diner.
