Kathy Bates,
Alfre Woodard,
Sanaa Lathan,
Tyler Perry,
Rockmond Dunbar
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Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates star in writer/director Tyler Perry's family drama about an upper-crust family and their working-class counterparts, who discover that scandal knows no social boundaries.... read more
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Release Date: September 12, 2008
DVD Release Date: January 13, 2008
Stats: 1,730 reviews
Cast: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Taraji P. Henson, Cole Hauser, Rockmond Dunbar, Kadee Strickland, Tyler Perry, Robin Givens, Kaira Whitehead, Damien Leake
Director: Tyler Perry
Summary: Tyler Perry writes, directs and co-stars in this poignant dramedy cent... read more
Put Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard in a movie together and how can you go wrong?? Can't in my opinion. This is a really good drama. Tyler Perry really seems to have a gift in creating entertaining and memorable movies. This is one of them.
I wasn't a big fan of this one although it played out really well so it gets 3 stars for the great acting, directing, and script even if I didn't enjoy the storyline. The story is filled with themes of friendship, family, extramarital affairs, secrets, lies, manipulation, marria... read more
I saw it...it was good. Full of surprises that everyone got and deserved. All of the characters played their parts exceptionally well for you to believe the intensity of the parts that were played.
See the preview...Intense...!!!
http://www.tylerperry.com/_Movies/
All in all I ... read more
This is a touching story of love, deceit, friendship and compassion where all the evil doers get theirs and the good people triumph. Kathy Bates (Charlotte Cartwright) and Alfre Woodard(Alice Pratt) both gave two of the best performances in this film. Once again Tyler Perry does ... read more
As always, Tyler Perry's movies deliver great performance and very entertaining plots of real life drama.
Exactly the kind of preachy, pandering, tone-shifting, gospel-laced soap opera that Tyler Perry's served up time and time again.
This movie was really good. The acting was great, and I loved the friendship between Woodard's and Bates' characters. Lathan's character was such a bitch! I was glad to see she got what she deserved in the end.
Good film, good performances. Tyler Perry is evolving as a filmmaker, this is his second best film [his best is Why Did I Get Married?].
By far the best thing about the enterprise is Woodard. If she's not in this thing, I think it goes kaput. Full Review
The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip. Full Review
The movie plays almost exactly like four daily soap episodes stitched together. Full Review
As usual, the villains are very bad, and the good guys are very noble -- until they get mad and clock their wives. Full Review
It's hard to resist the movie's mixture of soap opera, humor and heart-filled homilies.
The suds that cascade through Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys more than equal the cubic footage from nighttime soaps like Dallas, Dynasty and their offspring. Full Review
This mix of lovingly-written characters and terribly hokey plots makes for an uneven but occasionally engaging drama. Full Review
Defiantly old-school, undeniably entertaining, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys is a shiny, two-timing throwback to 1950s melodramas like Giant, those wellsprings of such prime-time soaps as Dallas... Full Review
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