User Friendly

In User Friendly, Teniola's father Bamidele dies and leaves her his business empire. She spirals into grief and alcoholism. Her grandmother and her uncle Tunde pressure her to honor the legacy. She is engaged to Clinton in a marriage arranged to consolidate wealth, but Clinton despises her drinking and tries to exit the arrangement. His father forces him to stay. One night at a club, Teniola drinks heavily and wakes up beside Bayo. Bayo reveals he is the bodyguard hired by the family to protect her from a mysterious assassin. Teniola attempts to bribe him to leave, but he refuses, citing his duty. Her cousin Busayo and Clinton's father scheme to seize control of the company. They exploit Teniola's vulnerability. She signs away authority while intoxicated, but Bayo intercepts the documents. Her grandmother confronts her about the drinking and reveals Bamidele chose Teniola as successor because he saw her potential. Teniola collapses from acute alcohol intoxication and enters rehab. She resists treatment until Bayo's steadfast support and a doctor's warning about liver failure break through. In rehab, assassination attempts intensify as a nurse smuggles alcohol and a hitman poses as staff. A knife attack occurs, but Bayo thwarts each attempt. Police uncover a ten thousand dollar contract on her life. At a family meeting, the grandmother accuses Clinton's family and Uncle Tunde of orchestrating the hits, and Busayo and Clinton plot to remove Bayo first. Clinton visits with annulment papers, but Teniola refuses to sign. Bayo later arrives with a birthday cake and they share a vulnerable moment and confess love. Teniola's mother interrupts furiously, yet Teniola stands firm and calls off her engagement to Clinton. She reveals a prenuptial agreement protecting the family fortune and confronts Uncle Tunde about past embezzlement.