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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tyler Perry released in USA on 12 september 2008 with Alfre Woodard
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 september 2008
Length 1h46
Directed by Tyler Perry
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families
Rating59%
The Family That Preys is a 2008 American movie drama written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry. The screenplay focuses on two families, one wealthy and the other working class, whose lives are intertwined in both love and business.
The movie is the second of four in which Perry's signature character, Madea, does not make an appearance. It is also the second Perry-directed film (alongside Daddy's Little Girls) that is not based on any of the filmmaker's stage plays.
Synopsis
In a prologue, socialite Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) hosts the wedding of her best friend Alice Evans' (Alfre Woodard) daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan), who is marrying ambitious construction worker Chris Bennett (Rockmond Dunbar). The couple is congratulated by Charlotte's son William (Cole Hauser) and his wife Jillian (KaDee Strickland), who deprived Charlotte of planning an elaborate reception for them by eloping. William suggests the newlyweds contact him for employment with the Cartwright family's highly successful Atlanta construction company after they return from their honeymoon.Actors
Alfre Woodard
(Alice Evans)
Kathy Bates
(Charlotte Cartwright)
Sanaa Lathan
(Andrea Evans-Bennett)
Rockmond Dunbar
(Chris Bennett)
Taraji P. Henson
(Pam)
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