Netflix isn’t messing around in 2020. Not a studio willing to wait around for everyone to slowly awake from the post-holiday coma, the streaming service is hitting the ground running in the new year. Series like “Dracula” are premiering this week, along with a number of other shows, and on the film side, January marks the debut of Tyler Perry’s first Netflix outing — “A Fall From Grace.”
And in the trailer for “A Fall From Grace,” it appears that we’re getting the side of Perry that embraces the thriller instead of the campy, slapstick humor he presents in his ‘Madea’ franchise. The film focuses on a character named Grace, who finds love with a much younger man after she ends her marriage with an adulterous husband. However, just when she thinks she’s found the new man of her dreams, her life is thrown into chaos with all signs pointing to her new beau as the perpetrator.
The film stars Phylicia Rashad, Bresha Webb, Mehcad Brooks, Cicely Tyson, and Tyler Perry himself. It’s not completely strange to see Perry star in a film that he produces. I mean, we’re talking about the man who brought Madea to life. But clearly, “A Fall From Grace” is a very different beast than any of the ‘Madea’ films.
Also, it has to be said that a successful marriage between Netflix and Perry seems like a no-brainer, right? Perry has made an empire based on fairly low-budget filmmaking and TV shows that overperform and are produced fairly quickly. Seems like a perfect fit for a company that shows time and again that the most popular content that they release isn’t “Marriage Story” or “Roma,” it’s “Murder Mystery” and “6 Underground.” And Tyler Perry is known for crowd-pleasers.
“A Fall From Grace” arrives on Netflix on January 17. You can watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis:
Disheartened since her ex-husband’s affair, Grace Waters (Crystal Fox) feels restored by a new romance. But when secrets erode her short-lived joy, Grace’s vulnerable side turns violent.