The Family That Preys (2008) on Netflix
Alice Pratt runs a diner; her best friend Charlotte Cartwright heads a construction company. Andrea, Alice's daughter, works there with her husband Chris and is seeing Charlotte's son William.
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Plot summary
Pam works at her mother Alice's diner and minds her sister Andrea's three-year-old son, while Andrea has taken a job at a construction corporation and lives well on designer clothes and a new Mercedes. Andrea's husband, Chris, a construction worker at the same company, wants to open a firm of his own; she ridicules the idea. She is having an affair with her boss, William Cartwright, whose mother Charlotte is Alice's longtime friend and the wealthy head of the company. Charlotte brings in Abby Dexter as chief operating officer, then takes Alice on a road trip with no set route or schedule.
Cast
- Santana Pruittas Christopher
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Family That Preys (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film opened in 2,070 theaters in North America on September 12, 2008 and grossed $17.4 million in its opening weekend, ranking second at the box office behind Burn After Reading.
- It eventually earned $37.1 million domestically, making it the second-least successful of Tyler Perry's films, ahead only of Daddy's Little Girls.
- Taraji P. Henson won Best Actress at the BET Awards for her role in the film combined with two other performances, in Not Easily Broken and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
