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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h
Summary Grace Waters (Crystal Fox), a longtime pillar of her Virginia community, stays composed when her ex weds his mistress and her son moves away. With convincing from her best friend Sarah (Phylicia Rashad), she tries putting herself first, and a handsome stranger (Mehcad Brooks) becomes her surprise second love. Yet any woman can snap, and ...
Directed By: Tyler Perry
Written By: Tyler Perry
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h
A Fall from Grace
34
4.9
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Summary Grace Waters (Crystal Fox), a longtime pillar of her Virginia community, stays composed when her ex weds his mistress and her son moves away. With convincing from her best friend Sarah (Phylicia Rashad), she tries putting herself first, and a handsome stranger (Mehcad Brooks) becomes her surprise second love. Yet any woman can snap, and ...
Directed By: Tyler Perry
Written By: Tyler Perry
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
A Fall From Grace isn’t consequential moviemaking. This won’t come as a surprise to plenty of Perry’s detractors and maybe Perry doesn’t have to aim for that.
While the performances are stronger and the narrative is more coherent than you’d see in a “Madea” movie, for example, Perry’s latest still features many of the auteur’s trademarks: dizzying tonal swings, awkward blocking, drab lighting, jarring edits and a mixture of the salacious and the puritanical.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
4.9
38% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
38% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
4.9
38% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
38% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Perry’s self-produced soap opera scribble is the kind of hilarious so-bad-it’s-good romp in which the man behind the curtain invites his viewers to roll their eyes.
This is like watching the paint dry in the still-new Tyler Perry Studios soundstages.
It’s a five-day toss-off that’s simultaneously an impressive feat and business as usual.
Ultimately, nothing is much of a surprise in a story that fails to untether itself from Perry’s longest lasting trope: the sad black woman.
It’s Jasmine’s inept and unprofessional behavior during the film’s climactic trial that really sends the film into absurdist territory. It’s outdone only by a final sequence of events with a horror-show twist that might best be described as bonkers.
I mean, I've seen much worse. It's not like I disliked this film, it was just a little too predictable for my liking. I had the story line figured out very quickly. This is NOT the first film of it's kind, and I think the final product would be getting better reviews if the writers and directors would have executed the making of this film with that in mind. That being said, I thought Crystal Fox delivered an EXCELLENT performance.
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What a waste of some stellar acting talent and a really good premise. It's a bizarre mix of one of those cutsie '80's type films where the whole film revolves around a child actor while the whole adult world in that film contorts itself to pander to a child's understanding of the world.. and a serious who dunnit? Like I said, a bizarre **** child that I'm referring to is the defence lawyer.. ... it's like she just wakes up all of a sudden in a court room one day and has to defend a client.. the duh and dead blank stares and complete lack of understanding of how a court room actually operates is waay too far a leap of faith or suspension of belief to make any sense at all of this incredibly badly written script. And I love Tyler Perry films to begin with so don't assume my reasonings.. and yeah, it is worth noting that the town that this was supposed to take place at sure has a disproportionate amount of actors from a certain race BUT I come to expect Tyler Perry to represent and promote black actors, actresses and communities. One fellow on this site made a racial slur/reference (of which I haven't found a way to report) calling it planet of the apes. From one white person to another, hey! Did you ever think that, what you were feeling about the racial ratio represented in the film is exactly what black Americans have been complaining about Hollywood under-representing the black community for like.. forever. This is how it must feel to them. Like it or not, you just put yourself in someone else's shoes without the epiphany.
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