Nappily Ever After is a 2018 American romantic comedy film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Adam Brooks and Cee Marcellus.

The film stars Sanaa Lathan, Ernie Hudson, Lyriq Bent, Lynn Whitfield, Ricky Whittle, and Camille Guaty.

Insisting she look perfect at all times, Violet's mother Paulette works diligently to straighten her natural hair.

Violet struggles with her mother's perspective until her hair becomes naturally wild and frizzy after jumping into a pool; when the other children begin to ruthlessly tease her, a horrified Paulette rushes her home.

As an adult, Violet is seemingly perfect: a successful advertising executive, she has a doctor boyfriend Clint and wears her hair long and straight with great effort.

Expecting Clint's proposal on her birthday, Violet rushes urgently to the hairdresser Will's when a neighbor's kids accidentally spray her.

After getting drunk, she unsuccessfully attempts to have a one-night-stand, as the man busts his head open during foreplay.

After losing a pitch for an ad campaign with diverse women to a male colleague's idea using blonde models, Violet quits her job.

The next morning, Violet is preparing breakfast, but Clint insists she sit at the table, and cuts onions.

The romantic comedy project Nappily Ever After was previously in development by Universal Pictures in 2003, when the studio had Patricia Cardoso to direct the film adaptation of Trisha R. Thomas' novel of same name, and the script was written by Tina Gordon Chism which was later rewritten by Lisa Loomer.

[9] On August 15, 2017, it was announced that the film was now developing by Netflix and Sanaa Lathan was cast to play the lead role, which Haifaa al-Mansour would direct from a screenplay by Adam Brooks and Cee Marcellus.

[1] Ernie Hudson also joined the film to play Violet Jones' (Lathan) father Richard.

[2] In August 2017, Lynn Whitfield had joined the film to play Violet's mother, Paulette.