Academy Award®-winner Kathy Bates and
Academy Award®-nominee Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs
of two very different families being torn apart by greed and
scandal in the contemporary drama TYLER PERRY’S THE FAMILY
THAT PREYS. The sixth feature film by Perry chronicles the
inner workings of two families—one upper-crust and the other
working class—that become inextricably linked by scandal.
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) and her
dear friend Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard), a working class
woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship
throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired
in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs,
unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret
threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of
all involved. Alice’s self-centered newlywed daughter Andrea
(Sanaa Lathan) is betraying her trusting husband Chris (Rockmond
Dunbar) by engaging in a torrid affair with her boss and
mother’s best friend’s son William (Cole Hauser). While
cheating on his wife Jillian (Kadee Strickland) with a
string of ongoing dalliances with his mistress Andrea,
William’s true focus is to replace the COO of his mother’s
lucrative construction corporation. Meanwhile, Alice’s
other daughter Pam (Taraji Henson), a kind but no nonsense
woman married to a hard working construction worker (Tyler
Perry), tries to steer the family in a more positive
direction.
While paternity secrets, marital infidelity, greed and
unsavory business dealings threaten to derail both families,
Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by
making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover
themselves and possibly find a way to save their families
from ruin in TYLER PERRY’S THE FAMILY THAT PREYS.
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