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Acrimony (2018)

R03/30/2018Drama, Thriller2h
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Hell hath no fury.

Overview

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.

Top Billed Cast

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    Taraji P. Henson

    Melinda Moore Gayle

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    Lyriq Bent

    Robert Gayle

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    Crystle Stewart

    Diana

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    Danielle Nicolet

    Sarah

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    Ptosha Storey

    Brenda

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    Jazmyn Simon

    June

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    Kendrick Cross

    Kalvin

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    Nelson Estevez

    Casey

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    Jay Hunter

    Devon

It’s always a bad sign when the first thing we see in a movie is the dictionary definition of the title. It’s bad because it assumes that we’re too ignorant to know what the word means — in this case, ‘acrimony,’ which I would say ranks lowish in the Hemingway-Faulkner scale —, and why would we want to watch a film that underestimates, sight unseen, our intelligence? Moreover, if writer/director Tyler Perry deems his chosen title to be so obscure that he had best not even risk giving us the benefit of the doubt, why didn’t he pick another, more accesible word — one that he feels is common ...