And are we to believe that they went so far as to use company money to further their illicit affair. I loved it, I cant say it enough. The Family that Preys shows grand advances in the filmmaking education of playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry. It has Tyler Perry's trademark trio: sincerity, spirituality, and story. Download the TV Guide app for iPhone, iPad and Android! The daughter has ambitions of stealing him away from his wife and family.
Seriously good, watch it before you rate it, please. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
| I will not go into the story itself as it will give away what is so great about this film, which is its simplistic but all so real reflection of the lives of the families the story takes place around. She sips on a hurricane in New Orleans. Though she apparently struggles to break even every week, she continues to work an honest day for honest pay. I want to see it again. But he does more. That's my girl and she's on a roll, lol! But this old-school melodrama actually worth a trip back to the theaters: Thanks to some first-rate acting from its stars, it ranks among Perry's best. I always end up underestimating how good Perry's movies are. | Don't have an account? Cinemark Chris spends Andrea’s “bonus money” without her knowledge. I think southerners, with insider's knowledge of complicated relationships between Blacks and Whites, (especially between wealthy Whites and the people who work for them), viewers familiar with Faulkner's work, family stories passed down from generation to generation will walk away with a special, "ah ha" that reminds me of so and so and "miss" so and so...moment. The Family that Preys shows grand advances in the filmmaking education of playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry. As always, Tyler Perry's movies deliver great performance and very entertaining plots of real life drama.
Oh don't get me wrong, it doesn't stop there. This is a really good drama. The haughty, delusional daughter is a stock character from other Perry movies, and unfortunately not particularly believable. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. Delightful!. | Rating: 1.5/4 Robyn Givens surprises us with a good, solid performance also, a true professional, and her timing was on point! Women sometimes wear tops or dresses that reveal quite a bit of cleavage. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher.
(She fooled around, too, to make things fair. A husband strikes his wife in the face after she insults him and admits to having an affair; he later grabs the other man and holds his body over a ledge. ...loved this movie. A couple of conversations hint at sexual contact and attraction. All rights reserved. Part soap opera, part road trip, PREYS is tailor-made for a certain audience, namely females. We have a Christian protagonist who generally practices what she preaches.
She comes across as a very sweet, genuine woman and friend with a son whose a piece of work.
His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. November 17, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Monika Fabian. And it comes across as rushed and underdeveloped. The title was purposefully chosen to be ?The Family that Preys?. I think I’m gonna keep the rest of it for me.”. One woman, sipping a martini, is so inebriated that she lets slip details of Andrea and William’s affair. |, September 15, 2008 We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Charlotte is the mother of a spoiled greedy son, William (Cole Hauser). But he is a Christian, and he does allow some of his characters to be so, too. Alice, on the other hand, is a single, working-class mother with two now-grown daughters, Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) and Pam (Taraji P. Henson). No doubt Alice knew of Chris and Ben's desire to start a construction company, a venture if profitable, would have helped her daughters and her grandson.
|, September 15, 2008 It's all about the drama, and with Bates and Woodard on board, it delivers. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Charlotte and Alice go on cross-country road trip (a la Oprah Winfrey and her best friend Gayle), while at home, a long-term affair between Andrea and William threatens to devastate both families. All is not clean and squeaky in Perry’s melodramatic worlds. The hard worker and religious Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard) raised her two daughters managing a simple bar of her own. Chris also hits William and almost pushes him off a high floor of a partly constructed building. The story line, referring to backstabbing, down and dirty, dysfunctional family dynamics where people sometimes prey together upon others and sometimes they prey individually on each other.
But please do not simply read the reviews or even take my word for it, see it for yourself and make up your mind. (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. Mr. Perry managed to bring to the screen a powerful but entertaining adult story that kept the viewing audience glued to their seats. Now I don't think that every Tyler Perry film has been that great, but I also don't think any of them have been that bad. I am tired of her looking down her nose at us... like we didn't live in the same house or the same neighborhood! If they aren't long time friends off-camera, they surely fooled me. Four years later, both Chris and Andrea work for William—Chris on a Cartwright construction site, Andrea as the company’s financial wizard. “He’ll listen.
We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Alice doesn’t drink. Well, no. The star rating reflects overall quality. I find it hard to explain or understand why it has such a hash rating.
Taraji should be going home with an Oscar soon if she keeps going the way she's going.