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Writer:
Tyler Perry (writer)
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Release Date:
12 September 2008 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Follow your heart. But watch your back. more
Plot:
Two families from different walks of life learn to work together. full summary | full synopsis
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6 nominations more
User Reviews:
A Reasonable Soap-Opera with an Absurd Plot Point more (32 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alfre Woodard ... Alice Pratt

Sanaa Lathan ... Andrea

Rockmond Dunbar ... Chris

KaDee Strickland ... Jillian Cartwright

Cole Hauser ... William Cartwright

Taraji P. Henson ... Pam
Robin Givens ... Abby

Tyler Perry ... Ben

Kathy Bates ... Charlotte Cartwright

Sebastian Siegel ... Nick

Kaira Akita ... Robin (as Kaira Whitehead)
Santana Pruitt ... Christopher

Ron Clinton Smith ... Construction Foreman

Jeff Rose ... Loan Officer
Johnell J. Easter ... Customer
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Also Known As:
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (USA) (complete title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for thematic material, sexual references and brief violence.
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USA:111 min
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1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
USA:PG-13 (certificate #44590) | Singapore:PG
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Alice Pratt: [after Charlotte has bought a vintage car] I've never seen you drive! Where's Morgan Freeman? more
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References The Jazz Singer (1927) more
Soundtrack:
I Hope You Dance more

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6 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
A Reasonable Soap-Opera with an Absurd Plot Point, 11 February 2009
6/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The hard worker and religious Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard) raised her two daughters managing a simple bar of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) is graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam (Taraji Henson) stayed with Alice working in the bar. Andrea is married with the construction worker Chris (Rockmond Dunbar), who works in the same corporation of his wife and dreams on initiating his own business. However she is betraying him with their boss William Cartwright (Cole Hauser). William is the son of Alice's best friend, the wealthy Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates). While Alice travels with Charlotte in a road trip without destiny, the ambition and infidelity of William trigger a series of events that will affect relationships in both families.

"The Family That Preys" is a reasonable soap-opera and my first impression is that it is underrated in IMDb. However, the plot point in the meeting of the board of Charlotte's company is so absurd and incoherent that spoils the story and might be the reason for such bad rating. My vote is six.

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