LIST OF TYLER PERRY MOVIES AND PLAYS TV

Otherwise, it seems, the film would be happy to see Grace to die a slow, incarcerated death. None of these themes are explored weвЂ™re meant to accept them as typical of an innocent, attractive young black woman married to a hot young cop.Д«ut luckily for Miss Grace, Jasmine believes that even though Grace hit her philandering and abusive second husband over the head with a baseball bat several times and then pushed his unconscious body down the basement steps, she didnвЂ™t actually kill him.

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Perry- who recently bragged about writing all of his recent film and TV scripts alone-seems unaware of (or just doesnвЂ™t care) how unusual it would be for a public defender to be married to a police officer, as well as how twisted it is for someone who has willingly taken on a relatively low-salaried social justice job (after incurring student debt) to hate the people she is meant to serve. This arrangement works for Jasmine: Her desire to be a public defender is waning since she believes all of her clients are вЂњmurderers, liars, and thievesвЂќ unworthy of her commitment she would prefer to be enveloped in the goodness of her domestic life with her policeman hubby.

Jasmine doesnвЂ™t shine in court, so her boss (Perry in an unconvincing wig and beard) assigns her the case with the expectation that Jasmine will have Grace promptly sign a plea deal. Later, Jasmine finds herself assigned to a simple plea-deal case: An older woman named, you guessed it, Grace (Fox), allegedly murdered her much younger husband Shannon (Mehcad Brooks), and has confessed to police. This public defender, Jasmine Bryant (Bresha Webb), is married to a cop (Matthew Law) who, at the beginning of the film tries and fails to save an older woman who is threatening to jump off the roof of the boarding house/nursing home she lives in. Perry fuses these two themes because the latter victim-blaming is an easy way to moralize the filmвЂ™s absurd sequence of events, which are all solved by a rookie public defender who-no kidding-detests people who have committed crimes.

The film is on one level about elder abuse, and on the other, about the apparent naivetГ© of older women who are desperate to be loved, even when it all seems too good to be true. Unlike those earlier Perry films, A Fall from Grace is a full-on melodrama, with no comic relief to give talented actors like Crystal Fox and Phylicia Rashad room to breathe under the strain of a pedestrian and offensive screenplay. This may go for any of his films, though, on occasion, the acting is good enough to overcome the atrocities, like Angela BassettвЂ™s performance in Meet the Browns, Keke Palmer in MadeaвЂ™s Family Reunion, or I Can Do Bad All By MyselfвЂ™s Hope Olaide Wilson (who more recently starred in Tchaiko OmawaleвЂ™s excellent Solace). ItвЂ™s hard to write about Tyler PerryвЂ™s latest film A Fall from Grace, because itвЂ™s not a film thatвЂ™s intended for thoughtful viewing-itвЂ™s meant to be devoured uncritically and compulsively.

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