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Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

PG-13 Released Mar 29, 2013 1h 51m Drama List
21% Tomatometer 38 Reviews 66% Popcornmeter 10,000+ Ratings
Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) has known her husband, Brice (Lance Gross), since they were in high school, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley (Robbie Jones), a charismatic client who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy.
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Wesley Morris Grantland Perry's movies have become so thematically grandiose, visually incoherent, and self-defensively bourgeois that the only way to receive them lately is as a cynic. Jan 3, 2014 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Perry has now built a media empire from spinning his own wheels. Rated: 1/5 Apr 5, 2013 Full Review Zachary Wigon Village Voice Perry has some worthwhile filmic models-Temptation gestures at Woody Allen in its setup, and Douglas Sirk in its melodrama-but he isn't even in the same star cluster as those greats. Apr 1, 2013 Full Review Justin Brown Medium Popcorn It is still entertaining despite some poor creative decisions and weird performances. Rated: 2/5 Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Brandon Collins Medium Popcorn It's so crazy and entertaining. Jurnee was on another level in this one. This is such a great movie! Rated: 4/5 Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Tatiana Albandos Medium Popcorn The dialogue makes it so entertaining for no reason. So many memorable lines for all the wrong reasons. I watch this every time it's on tv. Rated: 3/5 Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This film is literally horrific. Why do Black audiences encourage this man? Tyler Perry films do nothing, but; exploit Black stereotypes; demonize Black women; and prove to all bigots that this truly is how they should see Black people. Some examples of the dumbass dialogue that is entirely inexplicable: 1. Judith comes home to her husband (Brice) and he asks her: "How was your third week of work?" What in the actual hell is he talking about!? He is MARRIED to this person! Does he only check in with her once a week about her new job? This is preposterous, dumb writing. 2. Literally ANYTHING Kim Kardashian says in the film. Why was she cast at all? And what the hell is her job title in that office?! 3. The scene where Brice realizes he forgot his WIFE's birthday for the second year in a row. How the f-%#@ does this happen? No one on planet Earth has ever done this. And, yet again, this Tyler Perry movie concludes with nothing but punishment and suffering for the sinner. Judith stepped out on her husband. So, what are her consequences? She now had AIDS and has to continue her life on her own, as she slowly limps to her car after getting her AIDS medication from Brice, in his new pharmacy where he's married to a young, hot new woman and they have a baby together. It's a horrible, scarring conclusion. It's not ridiculous to think that a couple, who's been together since they were 6 years old, will grow apart and realize they aren't meant to be together. But, according to Tyler Perry, this is exactly how the world should work. Anyone who ever falls out of love with their partner is the devil. End of message. All his films have horrible, horrible messages. This one is high up there in that list. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Stupid movie stupid premise stupid idea. Stop putting out terrible movies and putting stupid ideas in peoples heads. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review marisol m Oh….my…..GAWD. Tyler Perry's over here trying his damnedest to will the fear of God into fornicating females everywhere. With this film - an abhorrent disaster of 'The Room'-level incompetence - Perry outdoes himself by doubling down on antiquated agendas. 'Temptation' is a braindead, Bible-clutching, feature-length embodiment of that moment in 'Mean Girls' when Coach Carr barks "Don't have sex. Because you will get pregnant. AND DIE." Get piss drunk and watch this with a buddy for a howl or two, or ten. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie shows us the type of temptations married people go through everyday. And in the movie they showed us how falling into one temptation can ruin your entire life. It has a very powerful message. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Temptation I just watched Temptation and if you like movies that are sexual and abusive, then your in luck. This story is about a young woman (Jurnee Smollet-Bell) trying to find a career for marriage counseling, Her husband (Lance Gross) a pharmacist. The acting was just OK. I thought that Lance Gross did the best. What I liked about the movie, was that there was romance at first, then... what I didn't like about the movie was that there was bad things going on at the end. Every movie teaches you a lesson this movie taught me, not to mess around with a another guy when you're loyal to someone else. The people that will probably like this movie are people that like sexual attention and like abusive movies. I thought the movie very bad and I would give it a, not even one star out five stars. Mandalyn N thought this movie was awful. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member It was brilliant the way it showed the process of adultery. I've never thought about it like that or seen it like that and it was very surprising. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) has known her husband, Brice (Lance Gross), since they were in high school, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley (Robbie Jones), a charismatic client who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy.
Director
Tyler Perry
Producer
Tyler Perry, Ozzie Areu, Paul Hall
Screenwriter
Tyler Perry
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
Tyler Perry Studios, Lionsgate Films
Rating
PG-13 (Sexuality|Drug Content|Some Violence)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 29, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$52.0M
Runtime
1h 51m
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