In “Fatal Attraction” (1987), the thriller that brought a new kind of possessed feminine rage to the screen, the Glenn Close character — a scorned Medusa — often did things that looked crazy; she stalked and terrorized, she flashed her demon smile, and she boiled a bunny.
Yet there was a core of furious sanity to her lunacy.
She’d been seduced and betrayed, and she stood in for all the women who had ever felt used in that way.
She may have snapped, but on the movie’s terms she’d earned the right to go off her rocker.“Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” is Perry’s off-the-wall, inside-out, topsy-turvy variation on “Fatal Attraction.” The central character, Melinda, played by Taraji P.
Henson in what has become her trademark mode of this-one-goes-to-eleven wrath, looks out from the screen with an anger so coldly consuming it turns her skin to ash.
The film opens in a courtroom,
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