In-between business lunches, meetings, bills and mortgages, everyone could use a good old movie about friendship and love that do conquer all in this mad mad world. A good old weeping at the end, when good people get what they deserve and bad people are either punished or are changing ways, enough to make us hopeful and go to sleep light-hearted.

“Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys” is one of those movies. You know right from the get-go that it’s no “Sophie’s Choice” or “Schindler’s List,” but it’s something that could give you a hope for the better. Although you know that it’s going to be two hours of cliché after cliché, like the whole “rich people are bad and cold hearted while poor people who work hard are good and forgiving,” it still is OK to fantasize about a world where justice is maid.

The movie, of course, doesn’t bring anything new to the table. It’s a simple tale of two families that are separated by color and bank accounts, but somehow their connections are tighter than what beats the eye. Kathy Bates plays Charlotte, a ruthless business executive that kind of lost her soul on the way and comes to friend Alice (Alfre Woodard) for comfort and a glimpse of a simpler, but happier life, where God forgives our sins and money isn’t everything.

Then come the kids, each of them representing a very specific type of human behavior. There is Charlotte‘s son, a wealthy heartless slick who relies on nepotism when it comes to his future in the family company and then there are Alice’s two daughters, Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) and Pam (Taraji P. Henson). Both smart and beautiful, but with different views of what happiness is like. Andrea is the type that would do anything just to get ahead and is ashamed of her family’s diner, while Pam is a down-to-earth good old gal with an attitude, waiting tables everyday and still being able to see the beauty of life.

The movie is a concentrated saga that shows intrigue, money, hatred and ambition along with love and forgiveness, and is probably a movie best to watch at home, tucked in your comfortable blankets, away from the cruel world. It will surely leave you wondering about life and hoping for the best in your future.

It’s sweet, it’s moralizing. It’s like a good old chicken soup for the soul. To be enjoyed warm, preferably with family and friends.