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The Family That Preys

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The Family That Preys	comment	This 2008 movie written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry is about the inner workings of two families—one upper crust and the other working class—that become inextricably linked by scandal. Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice, 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. There are a lot of spoilers here due to the nature of the movie.
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The Family That Preys / int_1116591	type	Best Friends-in-Law
The Family That Preys / int_1116591	comment	Ben and Chris, who are implied to become friends through their shared military backgrounds before becoming best friends through their marriages to sisters Pam and Andrea.
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The Family That Preys / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The Family That Preys / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Andrea to William. The former thinks this trope would play into some Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! and would keep her from getting fired but it doesn't, as she's left alone and practically broke by the end of the movie.
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The Family That Preys / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Family That Preys / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Charlotte and Alice, having a close friendship that has lasted decades. Ben and Chris, who are implied to become friends through their shared military backgrounds before becoming best friends through their marriages to sisters Pam and Andrea.
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The Family That Preys / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Family That Preys / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The title is a play on the old saying, "The family that prays together stays together."
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The Family That Preys / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Family That Preys / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Averted in the case of Andrea. Andrea is played by the stunning Sanaa Lathan, but she's so cruel and heartless that it's near impossible to appreciate her outward lovely appearance.
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The Family That Preys / int_32029ce3	type	Money Slap
The Family That Preys / int_32029ce3	comment	Money Slap: After social-climbing, career-driven Andrea is slapped in the face by her hard-working Henpecked Husband Chris for admitting to a long-standing affair she's had with her arrogant and narcissistic boss William, she tosses some of the money from her purse into his face and orders him to leave their home.
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The Family That Preys / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
The Family That Preys / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Charlotte is this to Jillian, who from what we see, is nothing but nice to her, even in the face of the rude behavior she always endures from her.
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The Family That Preys / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Family That Preys / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Huh. That's the same room his father used to have affairs in." "My son...is a Cartwright."
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The Family That Preys / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Family That Preys / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Andrea, in spades, which is odd as she hasn't started off wealthy.
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The Family That Preys / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Family That Preys / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide / Dying As Herself: Charlotte when she takes a deadly combo of pills, her reasons being that she has Early-Onset Alzheimers.
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The Family That Preys / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Family That Preys / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Andrea's husband Chris, and it is not Played for Laughs. She emasculates him at every single opportunity and viciously shoots down any attempts of his to be a loving man towards her. If anything, it doesn't stop short of abusive.
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The Family That Preys / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Family That Preys / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Even when the truth was staring him right in the face, Chris still is blissfully unaware of Andrea's cheating.
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The Family That Preys / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Family That Preys / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Andrea's first appearance in the film has her complaining about her wedding dress, Charlotte's generosity (since she doesn't think it's genuine), and even her mother's close friendship with her. This angers Pam greatly due to how close she is to their mother.
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The Family That Preys / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Family That Preys / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: Everyone knows about Andrea and William, except Andrea's husband.
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The Family That Preys / int_80818684	type	Sleeping Their Way to the Top
The Family That Preys / int_80818684	comment	Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Andrea. It comes back to bite her later on.
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The Family That Preys / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Family That Preys / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Played with in the character Charlotte, but ultimately averted.
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The Family That Preys / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Family That Preys / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: William loses control of his company and Andrea finally gets called out for the affair, William leaves her, and she ends up alone, unemployed, broke, and living in a low-rent apartment, forced to rely on child support payments from Chris to survive, essentially all of her worst fears come true.
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The Family That Preys / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Family That Preys / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: William suffers a minor one towards the end when he gets his just desserts. Andrea has one as well when she tries to get William to take care of her after they're both fired and the affair has been revealed. He coldly leaves her standing in the parking lot and tells her he's not leaving his wife for her, and she end up living her worst fear of living in poverty and relying on handouts for survival.
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The Family That Preys / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Family That Preys / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: William. Even with his smooth demeanor and voice, he has no problem trying desperately and failing to push his own mother out of the company she built, cheating on his wife with Andrea for several years without being caught and impregnating them both! and belittling the newly-hired and competent COO just because she's more interested in doing what's best for the company's future than being his yes woman.
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The Family That Preys / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Family That Preys / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Charlotte and Alice. Odd Friendship: For the most part, as the Charlotte is more adventurous, taking part in things the latter objects to (i.e drinking, dancing in clubs, and going to strip club) and Alice preferring to live rather simply.
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The Family That Preys / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Family That Preys / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: William's wife, Jillian, once she finds out about the affair. She shows up and tells Andrea to stay the hell away from her family.
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The Family That Preys / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Family That Preys / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At one point, Pam is upset about how greedy Andrea is and how the low amount of profit that Alice took in for the week causes her to say that "she broke her back" trying to keep the business afloat while also supporting Andrea through college. To this, Alice insists that her back is not broken. You would think she's saying that because she's a Determinator through hardship (which she is), but it's also because she is secretly pretty wealthy and at this point now runs the restaurant because she enjoys it. At one point, Charlotte mentions that she was divorced twice but Alice reminds her that she was divorced three times, to which she says, "Oh, I tried to forget that one." Charlotte's memory problems come up later again when she's trying to get her camera to work, whereupon, after handing it to Alice, she tells her that she has early-onset Alzheimer's.
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The Family That Preys / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Family That Preys / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: For the most part, as the Charlotte is more adventurous, taking part in things the latter objects to (i.e drinking, dancing in clubs, and going to strip club) and Alice preferring to live rather simply.
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The Family That Preys / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Family That Preys / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: As you might expect with the diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, Charlotte doesn't have much long for this world, however, she goes out on her terms.
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The Family That Preys / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Family That Preys / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Andrea's husband Chris would not believe Andrea was cheating on him until she literally said it to his face, despite the fact that everyone and their mom knew she and William were an item and there were signs everywhere. Chris trying to borrow money and creating a competing business involving William is so stupid that even his best friend calls him out on it. And he was also right, because William fires them both after using it as justification for conflict of interest. He makes matters worse by accidentally finding Andrea's hidden money, withdrawing it, and spending it to get the business off the ground. Andrea may be awful, but doing that without her consent was an unfair, idiotic move.
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The Family That Preys / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Family That Preys / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Subverted for both Chris and Jillian; both of them believe that their respective marriages are, but they really aren't. Played straight with Ben and Pam as well as Abigail and her husband.
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The Family That Preys / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Family That Preys / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Guy: William is the heir to a vast fortune and his wife Jillian comes from a trailer park. Downplayed, though, as he's remorselessly cheating on her.
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The Family That Preys / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Family That Preys / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Driving Miss Daisy. When Charlotte gets a new car, Alice asks where Morgan Freeman is.
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The Family That Preys / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Family That Preys / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Chris, Ben, Pam and Nick. Also Andrea and Alice before the story began, though Angela loses it and Alice is keeping her wealth hidden.
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The Family That Preys / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Family That Preys / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Andrea and Pam's father walked out on his family and left them in dire poverty, resulting in Andrea eventually becoming obsessed with money and social standing.
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The Family That Preys / int_c960dde7	type	Melodrama
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The Family That Preys / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Family That Preys / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Andrea doesn't listen to her mother and sister's warnings that William won't leave his wife for her. She should have.
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The Family That Preys / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Family That Preys / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Charlotte isn't a nice woman per se, but she's definitely a badass. Alice plays it more straight with a good head on her shoulders and is the heart of his family.
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The Family That Preys / int_daee232f	type	Who's Your Daddy?
The Family That Preys / int_daee232f	comment	Who's Your Daddy?: Andrea's son. According to Andrea, he's William's son, however, at the end, Chris is shown paying child support to and visiting him, making his paternity unclear.
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The Family That Preys / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Family That Preys / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Nick. Both Andrea and Pam are dismissive of him due to their own biases about homeless people, but Alice treats him with respect and dignity, before and after he became homeless. Turns out, he had been her financial advisor for years, allowing her to invest in Charlotte's company as a partner and wind up a multimillionaire. He had also been with the company until William, who was the boss at the time, had fired him, setting off his Trauma Conga Line.
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The Family That Preys / int_e24a1629	type	Sugar-and-Ice Personality
The Family That Preys / int_e24a1629	comment	Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Charlotte. We see her as an efficient businesswoman and a force to be reckoned with, while being very condescending to her daughter-in-law. However, she is also a very good and honest friend to Alice, and the two of them share equal standing in their friendship. Charlotte confides in Alice that she has Alzheimer's and begs her not to let her son put her in a home, and she later gives her daughter-in-law valuable advice on what to do when she finds out about William's affair with Andrea.
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The Family That Preys / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
The Family That Preys / int_e9c022ea	comment	Secretly Wealthy: Alice, when it's revealed that she has shares in Charlotte's company.
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The Family That Preys / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: William Cartwright, goes without saying. He's cold, distant, greedy, overly ambitious, and a cheater, on top of using people for his own means and trying to get his mother, Charlotte, out of her company. He also doesn't react to the possibility that may have a son with Andrea. To make it worse, apparently, he wants to be like his father, which raises few questions. Andrea. She is rude to everyone around her but William and is emotionally abusive to her husband Chris. She has no redeeming qualities and only a paper thin excuse for her behavior: the girls' father abandoned them and her mother had to raise them in poverty, so Andrea became obsessed with never being broke again. Guess what happens by the end?
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The Family That Preys / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Family That Preys / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: A rare justified version with Chris.
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The Family That Preys / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The Family That Preys / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Andrea, when William is fired and the affair is ended. Nick before the beginning of the story. As we find out later, he used to work for William as a stockbroker before the latter fired him for some reason.
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The Family That Preys / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Family That Preys / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Andrea feels this is why Charlotte paid for her wedding.
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The Family That Preys / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Even with Charlotte openly despising her daughter-in-law Jillian, when the latter comes to her heartbroken over William's affair, she informs her that since he married her without a prenuptial agreement, she could take him to the cleaners if she chooses to divorce him and gives her a yellow rose from her garden. She is immediately paid back by Jillian who informs her about the meeting her husband is planning on having that day to vote her out of the company, a meeting that she had no idea was going to take place.
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