The Family That Preys (Full Screen Edition)
by Tyler Perry
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Actor: Alfre Woodard, KaDee Strickland, Kathy Bates, Rockmond Dunbar, Sanaa LathanDirector: Tyler Perry
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Tyler Perry
Producer: Joseph P. Genier
Producer: Karen Gorodetzky
Producer: Michael Paseornek
Producer: Reuben Cannon
Producer: Roger M. Bobb
Producer: Tim Andrew
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of The Family That Preys (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: Totally unrealistic cheap entertainment
Summary: 1 Stars
Well at least it made the blackman look like the total victim and it justified a blackman bopping a black woman in her face! All of the other characters were two dimensional and stereotypical, instead of one dimensional. The Christian character, came off as mauldlin, spaced out, stupid and silly instead of comical, while traveling with her friend. What was the basis for their friendship? How would a business woman graduating at the top of her class put her cash in the bank where her husband would find it? And then leave the money in the bank after her husband found out? A woman who is gaining that kind of cash and perks from her married lover, whom is also the father of her child, would have left her never loved and repected husband, if she even ever married the poor sap in the first place, with her attitudes. And most women today wouldn't give a hill of beans if her lover left his wife or not. In fact, if she had her own career and was satified with the man, she would rather he stay with his wife, so she could maintain her independent and kept life style. "It's cheaper to keep her". All in all, the movie was sophomoric soap opera, about still taboo and little understood issues. Also, I didn't care for the implcation that the (SMART?) WEALTHY WHITE MATRON COMMITTED SUICIDE!!**##!!!?!? Who paid off for that wicked social engineering suggestion? After the wealthy white matron died and left Alice her Cadillac, why did Alice close her shop and leave both her and her dead friends's mutual grandchild and and ride ofF into the sunset: to do what, stick cash into men's drawers?
I certainly don't begrudge Tyler Perry's great success. I enjoyed the stage version of Madea's Family Reunion. I do believe that play was a gift from God. However, this movie didn't edify me one bit. This movie may have even been damaging to the understanding of real social/sexual politics between black men and woman as well as in interacial relationships today. This film presented no good examples of Christian, Mother or Friend. If Alice really loved her friend who made her a wealthy woman to boot, she would have vowed to take care of her, herself, until her friend's dying day. Not just say "I'ts gon be alright" but assure her that she was going to make it alright with real love, care and dignity, honor and respect for her friend's LIFE. They could have traveled with medical help and enjoyed their mutual grandchild together (what a gift between women) until it was time for her friend to die. That's a true CHRISTIAN friend! That's a Woman; that's a Mother; that's a GRANDMOTHER!!!!
Description of The Family That Preys (Full Screen Edition)
FAMILY THAT PREYS - DVD MovieAcademy AwardŽ-winner Kathy Bates (Lead Actress, Misery, 1990) and Academy AwardŽ-nominee Alfre Woodard (Supporting Actress, Cross Creek, 1983) 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 Preys. 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 P. 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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