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using it as the inspiration for the cast to arch their eyebrows to assured cramp, flare nostrils in unintentional comedic fury, and bounce impassioned lines of dialogue off each other with medicine ball grace. It's equal parts hilarious and aggravating, with Perry showing little shame as he works the characters into pants-wetting hysteria.
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elicit near-Pavlovian responses of cheers, jeers, and tears. Here and there, Perry throws us a curve ball—an act of physical violence presented as deserved comeuppance or a character's grim and dubiously appropriate endgame—but even these are not jarring enough to derail it. This is film as comfort food, and not the gourmet kind.
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The Family That Preys has that Love Boat kind of watchability and simplicity. Everything runs in a straight line, all endings are inevitable, and emotions and morals are no more complex than a well-timed platitude. The characters are amalgams of recognizable types plunked down in sitcom settings that
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is no exception, reflecting the helmer's view that the emotional roller-coaster of life can whip its passengers from outrage to exhilaration, from belly laughs to tears in an instant, making for an exhausting yet cathartic overall experience. The result seems ideal for who don't see too many movies,
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is a soap opera in the most unashamed sense, and while this aesthetic has made Perry heaps of coin, his personal screen touch remains some of the worst overall filmmaking around. The new feature is perhaps even more melodramatic than anything that's come before, taking the Andrea/William affair and
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isn't always believable—it's a stretch to accept the lifelong friendship of the two matriarchs as well as the last-minute business coup that they engineer—there's plenty of action to keep us engrossed. Perry wears his religious faith lightly . . . and is shrewd enough to balance piety with raucous
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Chris later becomes wealthier after opening a firm with Ben. Andrea, on the other hand, becomes guilt-ridden, heartbroken and unemployed. She is forced to live in a low-rent apartment and rely on child support from Chris to survive. Nick is wealthy and buys a house. He has always been wealthy, but
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William plots to take over the family firm. Jillian goes to Charlotte for advice. Charlotte reminds her that she is a woman scorned without a prenuptial agreement, and as such can divorce or reconcile and be okay either way. Jillian warns Charlotte of William's plan to have the board vote her out.
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Charlotte and Alice return to Atlanta. Andrea confronts Chris for taking her $ 300,000. She says that he and Ben will never be like William. Ben states that nobody cares about William and that Andrea cannot see that because of the affair. Andrea admits to Chris that the money was from William, her
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and determines the company will have to front $ 25 million to make William's deal viable. The only way to raise the money is for Charlotte to sell 10% of her shares, leaving her with a minority vote. William tells Abby that Charlotte's vote and his vote combined will give the Cartwrights continued
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Chris dreams of opening a construction firm with Ben, but Andrea ridicules those aspirations. At the bank, Chris is rejected for a loan application, but discovers Andrea deposited nearly $ 300,000 in a secret account. Andrea eventually catches Chris going through her hidden financial records. She
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Tyler Perry's melodramas have a tendency to skid not only off the counter but out the kitchen and down the hall, too. The Family That Preys, his first film in six months, is all over the place: It's a boardroom/family/couples/road-trip story. Kathy Bates plays the head of an Atlanta construction
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At the company gala, both Jillian and Abby discover Andrea and William's affair. William fires Chris and Ben after Chris asks for money to start a construction business of their own. Abby warns Andrea of the repercussions of the affair that will likely result in her termination from the company.
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revealed to be Alice. Alice has been receiving financial guidance for years from Nicholas "Nick" Blanchett, a homeless man she frequently fed at her diner. Nick had been a regular customer who left large tips until he lost his job, wife, and custody of his children. Nick still visits the diner
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yet another example of how the mini-mogul from Atlanta is his own worst enemy, raiding his cupboard of his popular but pandering stage plays and not bothering to script doctor them for the screen. As sophisticated as the filmmaking becomes, Perry's scripts are still painfully unsophisticated
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In the parking lot, Andrea approaches William unaware of the recent events and expecting him to leave Jillian for her. Instead, he washes his hands of Andrea, and drives away, ignoring her claim that he is her son's father. Charlotte commits suicide by taking a deadly combination of pills.
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Charlotte Cartwright hosts the wedding of Andrea—the daughter of Charlotte's best friend, Alice Evans—and construction worker Chris Bennett. Meanwhile, Charlotte's son, William, and his wife, Jillian, have eloped instead of letting Charlotte plan an elaborate reception for them.
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company where Sanaa Lathan is a snooty exec and her husband (Rockmond Dunbar), for maximum class/race sizzle, is a worker grunt. As usual, the villains, like Lathan, are very bad, and the good guys, like Dunbar, are very noble—until they get mad and clock their wives.
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after his wife died and lost his kids he just kept on moving around. William and Jillian reconcile. Alice sells the diner, driving off in the car that Charlotte left her, with a photo of her and Charlotte taped to the dashboard, to start life anew on the road.
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Chris confronts William on a job site and punches him. Jillian then confronts Andrea in the hotel room where trysts with William were held each Wednesday, and warns her to stay away from her family and that William will not be seeing her again.
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Four years later, Andrea's sister, Pam, is married to Ben and looks after Andrea's three-year-old son for extra income while working at their mother's diner. Andrea does not help their mother more financially, but has designer clothes and a new
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Alice tries to persuade Andrea to reconcile with Chris and end her affair, explaining that it will not last and William will never marry her, begging her to stop before her life is destroyed. Andrea refuses to listen to her.
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As with Perry’s other films, his Christian moralistic storytelling can be slightly off-putting—but the solid acting and genuinely entertaining story are sure to satisfy fans, and maybe even bring in some
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Andrea disagrees, believing that William will protect her. Convinced that they were marital assets, Chris takes the money from the hidden account and pays deposits to start a construction firm with Ben.
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William is determined to take the family business from his mother, believing the $ 500-million deal he recently closed will prove his capabilities. Charlotte hires Abigail "Abby" Dexter as
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and their offspring. As the movie proceeds, the flow quickens into a surging flood tide of recriminations and reversals in which blows are exchanged, claws bared and tears shed . . .
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treads the filmmaker's established terrain of family loyalty and moral uprightness, though the occasionally predictable plot slides forward, aided by an excess of soapy melodrama."
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lover. Furious, Chris slaps her. Andrea, further incensed, tells him to keep the money and move out. As Chris brings up their son, Andrea says that William is the father.
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The film opened in 2,070 theaters in North America on September 12, 2008 and grossed $ 17.4 million in its opening weekend, ranking #2 at the box office behind
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is the opportunity it affords to watch a pair of veteran actresses still at the top of their game. Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates play best pals in this
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doesn’t worry about how it gets from A to Z. There is no problem that a miraculous (and preposterous) plot development can’t resolve in two minutes.
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said the film "recycles familiar ingredients according to his own unique formula, serving up a lip-smacking, finger-snapping sudser" and added:
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assigned the film a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by
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humor and lots of sinful shenanigans. Perry's filmmaking skills have improved to the level of competence, and he has assembled a dream cast.
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regularly and pays Alice with investment advice. Nick was working for William as a stockbroker until William fired him without cause.
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rated the film three out of four stars and said, "Thanks to some first-rate acting from its stars, it ranks among Perry's best."
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rated the film two out of five stars and called it Tyler Perry's "most cinematically polished production to date" but also:
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Charlotte bought. Alice agrees, and they head west without a set route or schedule. Charlotte introduces Alice to
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format, with audio tracks and subtitles in English and Spanish. Bonus features include deleted scenes,
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Charlotte calls a board meeting and fires William with the support of the Calvary Company, a silent
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says that the money is bonuses she received from William and refuses to finance his business.
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The suds that cascade through more than equal the cubic footage from nighttime soaps like
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Perry's notoriously overstuffed plots have sometimes been top-heavy, but this movie, like
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cramming enough into one film to satisfy them until the next Perry pic comes out.
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for her role in the film combined with two other performances in
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grab-bags of melodramatic cliches, tired jokes and sermonizing.
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gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
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Charlotte asks Alice to go on a road trip in the vintage
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rated the film three out of five stars and commented:
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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Buddy Picture
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control; Abby advises Charlotte to sell her shares.
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Index


Tyler Perry
Alfre Woodard
Sanaa Lathan
KaDee Strickland
Rockmond Dunbar
Cole Hauser
Robin Givens
Taraji P. Henson
Kathy Bates
Toyomichi Kurita
Maysie Hoy
Aaron Zigman
Lionsgate
comedy-drama
Tyler Perry
Socialite
Mercedes
COO
convertible
honky-tonks
strip clubs
baptism
early-onset Alzheimer's disease
investor
Alfre Woodard
Sanaa Lathan
KaDee Strickland
Cole Hauser
Rockmond Dunbar

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