Acrimony
The trailer for Tyler Perry's Acrimony smolders. Taraji P. Henson plays Melinda, a scorned wife, and you see her in the trailer as you do in the film: smoking, and smoking mad, on a therapist's couch—a couch she has been ordered to by a judge after harassing her estranged spouse and his new fiance. From the trailer, the film seems dark, full of deceit, vengeance, and, surely, a twist or two that will explain Melinda's rage. Acrimony, unfortunately, is two hours longer than the trailer, and half as intriguing. The message behind the movie, if there is one all, seems to be that sometimes women really are crazy. Though she speaks on the therapist's couch about the stereotype of the "angry black woman," there is no redemption for Melinda, nor even a reason for her rage.
by Katie Herzog