Taglines: You always hurt the ones you love.
The movie begins with a court scene, the judge admonishing Melinda for her behavior and advising her to attend therapy to avoid harsher consequences such as jail time. She glares at the other side of the courtroom and has to be nudged by her attorney to reply she understands. She attends a therapy session resentful at having to be there and begins telling her story of betrayal to the court appointed counselor. She begins by describing how she met Robert as they crashed into each other on campus.
Their schoolwork gets exchanged accidentally and Robert locates her dorm room to return her papers to her and reclaim his own. There is an instant attraction and he offers to help her with her paper as he’s already taken the class. And they begin working together and seeing each other. Melinda fails the assignment and as she’s telling Robert about the sacrifice her mother is making to send her to school she sees her two sisters walk up. They give her the news that her mother has passed away.
Robert comes to the house after the funeral services and her sisters give him the interrogation introducing him to Melinda’s ex-boyfriend from high school. Robert leaves to return home appearing to feel out of place but Melinda runs after him and offers to drive him home. She takes him to an old RV he says he lives in that is housed in the driveway of his aunt. They talk and eventually walk into the bedroom where she advises us she loses her virginity. They are a couple now and Melinda has been left her mother’s house and $350,000 in insurance that her sisters advise her not to tell Robert about but by then she has.
On one of their dates he tells her that he plans to sell a battery he’s invented that will be revolutionary. But he’s concerned when the company he has been trying to sell it to contacts him he will have no way of making it to their office as he has no transportation. Melinda believes it’s her responsibility to purchase him a car to ensure whenever that call comes he will be able to get there. But she notices almost immediately that the frequency of his calls become less and less. And she begins to suspect he may be cheating on her. She drives over to his RV and sees a hand pressed against the window and hears the sounds of love making.
Quite naturally she turns her jeep around and rams it several times into the side of the RV until it falls on its side. Robert escapes through the bedroom window and pulls a young girl out we later learn is Diana. Melinda throws a brick through the window of the car she purchased and passed out. She explains that when she was driving the jeep into the RV she also hit her abdomen on the steering wheel causing internal injuries, internal bleeding and forces her ro have a hysterectomy.
Acrimony is a 2018 American psychological thriller film produced, written and directed by Tyler Perry. The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Nicolet, Ajiona Alexus, Jazmyn Simon, Lyriq Bent, Terayle Hill, Bresha Webb, Racquel Bianca John, Crystle Stewart, Jay Hunter, Katie Carpenter, Shavon Kirksey and Haley Goldman. Acrimony is scheduled to be released by Lionsgate on March 30, 2018.
Acrimony (2018)
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Nicolet, Ajiona Alexus, Jazmyn Simon, Lyriq Bent, Terayle Hill, Bresha Webb, Racquel Bianca John, Crystle Stewart, Jay Hunter, Katie Carpenter, Shavon Kirksey, Haley Goldman
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry
Production Design by: Paul Wonsek
Cinematography by: Richard J. Vialet
Film Editing by: Larry Sexton
Costume Design by: Crystal Hayslett
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexual content and some violence.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: March 30, 2018
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