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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers make it seem like Melinda is wronged and pushed into retaliation. [[spoiler: Admittedly, she ''is'' wronged at least once and Robert isn't as responsible a husband as he should be, putting money into developing his battery rather than more stable income, but it becomes clear over the course of the film that Melinda has [[spoiler: an undiagnosed mental disorder]] disorder and [[SanitySlippage slowly slips into irrationality]] from the stress of keeping that relationship long past it becoming untenable.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The woman Robert cheated with just so happened to inherit a position to give Robert an in to a company he can sell his battery design. When he had a coffee meeting with her, she accidentally left her wallet behind, which looks suspicious to Melinda and her family, especially after he ruined their delivery to an important client.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: The woman Robert cheated with just so happened to inherit a position to give Robert an in to a company he can sell his battery design. When he had a coffee meeting with her, she accidentally left her wallet behind, which looks suspicious to Melinda and her family, especially after he ruined their delivery to an important client.]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers make it seem like Melinda is wronged and pushed into retaliation. [[spoiler: Admittedly, she ''is'' wronged at least once and Robert isn't as responsible a husband as he should be, putting money into developing his battery rather than more stable income, but it becomes clear over the course of the film that Melinda has [[spoiler: an undiagnosed mental disorder]] and [[SanitySlippage slowly slips into irrationality]] from the stress of keeping that relationship long past it becoming untenable.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: According to Melinda, [[spoiler: Robert is a con man who was playing her from the start that wore her down over years of shrewd manipulation, but it's clear from her first meeting with him that, though he is flawed, he is still well intentioned and ''she'' will be the main source of tension in their relationship, mostly from keeping it beyond all common sense.]]
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* TheDeterminator: Robert refuses to give up on his battery invention and tries for nearly two decades to get it noticed. [[spoiler: He finally succeeds, but at the cost of his marriage and dealing with an unhinged ex wife.]]
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Melinda gives one to her sisters [[spoiler: for putting doubt in her mind about Robert after his invention was accepted and he became a multimillionaire, and breaks up with her boyfriend and insults his manhood, making it clear he will never be [[BiggerIsBetterInBed as ''good'' as Robert]]]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melinda admits early during her narration that there is another side to her, a side filled with uncontrollable rage that is the opposite to her usually cheerful self. [[spoiler: After listening to Melinda's side of the story, the psychiatrist suggest that she could be suffering from a mental disorder, and that Robert is not the monster she makes him out to be. She gets upset and leaves the section. Then she plots to kill Robert and his new wife afterwards]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: How the downward spiral begins. [[spoiler: Roberts meets the women he cheated on Melinda with back in college, only now she is a top level employee at the same business Robert has been desperately trying to get to see his battery invention. When Melinda finds out, she assumes Robert is cheating again with the same woman and divorces him, and it only gets worse from there... for Robert.]]
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* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with Melinda being reprimanded for refusing to adhere to court rulings, so she is mandated to attend therapy sessions where she is lead to recount how she ended up in that situation.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Melinda spends 18 years married to Robert, believing eventually he would finally start providing for her knowing he is extremely reluctant to get a job and would rather work on his battery. Deconstructed in that she grows to resent him, which sows further seeds of discontent that ruin their marriage.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers make it seem like Melinda is wronged and pushed into retaliation. Admittedly, she ''is'' wronged at least once and Robert isn't as responsible a husband as he should be, putting money into developing his battery rather than more stable income, but it becomes clear over the course of the film that Melinda has [[spoiler: an undiagnosed mental disorder]] and [[SanitySlippage slowly slips into irrationality]] from the stress of keeping that relationship long past it becoming untenable.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Melinda spends 18 years married to Robert, believing eventually he would finally start providing for her knowing he is extremely reluctant to get a job and would rather work on his battery. Deconstructed in that she grows to resent him, which sows further seeds of discontent that ruin their marriage.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers make it seem like Melinda is wronged and pushed into retaliation. Admittedly, she ''is'' wronged at least once and Robert isn't as responsible a husband as he should be, putting money into developing his battery rather than more stable income, but it becomes clear over the course of the film that Melinda has [[spoiler: an undiagnosed mental disorder]] and [[SanitySlippage slowly slips into irrationality]] from the stress of keeping that relationship long past it becoming untenable.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Robert is hated by 90% of the cast, most times justifiably so.
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* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Melinda spends 18 years married to Robert, believing eventually he would finally start providing for her knowing he is extremely reluctant to get a job and would rather work on his battery.
* GainingTheWillToKill: Melinda decides to crash her car into Roberts trailer when she discovers him cheating, and later decides to kill Roberts new fiancee, then eventually Robert himself.
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'''''Acrimony''''' is an upcoming 2018 film from Creator/TylerPerry, and ''quite'' a departure from [[Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman his]] [[Film/MadeasFamilyReunion usual]] [[Film/MadeaGoesToJail output]]. It concerns a woman named Melinda (Creator/TarajiPHenson) who learns that not only has her husband Robert ([[Film/SawIV Lyriq Bent]]) been cheating on her, but he has been leading a double life seeing another woman on the side -- and has no further interest in continuing his relationship with Melinda.
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'''''Acrimony''''' is an upcoming 2018 film from Creator/TylerPerry, and ''quite'' a departure from [[Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman his]] [[Film/MadeasFamilyReunion usual]] [[Film/MadeaGoesToJail output]]. It concerns a woman named Melinda (Creator/TarajiPHenson) who learns that not only has her husband Robert ([[Film/SawIV Lyriq Bent]]) been cheating on her, but he has been leading a double life seeing another woman on the side -- and has no further interest in continuing his relationship with Melinda. [[{{Understatement}} She doesn't take it well.]]]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The film basically builds up to this for Henson's character.
* SassyBlackWoman: Melinda tells her therapist that she is sick of the stereotype.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The film basically builds up to this for Henson's character.
* SassyBlackWoman: Melinda tells her therapist that she is sick of the stereotype.
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'''''Acrimony''''' is an upcoming 2018 film from Creator/TylerPerry, and ''quite'' a departure from his usual work.[[Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman his]] [[Film/MadeasFamilyReunion usual]] [[Film/MadeaGoesToJail output]]. It concerns a woman named Melinda (Creator/TarajiPHenson) who learns that not only has her husband Robert ([[Film/SawIV Lyriq Bent]]) been cheating on her, but he has been leading a double life seeing another woman on the side -- and has no further interest in continuing his relationship with Melinda. [[{{Understatement}} She doesn't take it well.]]
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'''''Acrimony''''' is an upcoming 2018 film from Creator/TylerPerry, and ''quite'' a departure from his usual work. It concerns a Pittsburgh woman named Melinda (Creator/TarajiPHenson) who learns that not only has her husband Robert ([[Film/SawIV Lyriq Bent]]) been cheating on her, but he has been leading a double life seeing another woman on the side -- and has no further interest in continuing his relationship with Melinda. [[{{Understatement}} She doesn't take it well.]]
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