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Anger Management
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, Dave goes from mild to wild as the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc with his life.
Release : | 2003 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, Happy Madison Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Assistant Art Director, |
Cast : | Adam Sandler Jack Nicholson Marisa Tomei Luis Guzmán Allen Covert |
Genre : | Comedy |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Redundant and unnecessary.
One of my all time favorites.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
I wished that I had learned something about anger management while watching the film by that name. By the end of the film I was almost angry that I had shelled out six dollars on such a terribly bad film. The previews looked like there was some potential here, and I suppose in the basic premise there was some miniscule amount of potential. Alas, the film did not enough live up to the potential hinted at in the previews.Anger Management stars Adam Sandler as someone who spends most of his time expressing the passive side of a passive/aggressive personality. While on an airplane ride his behaviors are misinterpreted as aggressive and he finds himself facing assault charges in criminal court. What starts out as a huge misunderstanding turns into a sentence of anger management therapy.Enter anger management guru, Buddy Rydell, as played by Jack Nicholson. Frankly, the whole idea of Jack Nicholson as an anger management therapist is pretty funny in and of itself. If you've seen Nicholson going ballistic in Five Easy Pieces, bellowing "here's Johnny" in The Shining, snarling "you can't handle the truth" in A Few Good Men, or taking over the asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest you know what I'm talking about. Alas, the idea is funnier than the realization, and in the end Nicholson is a great talented wasted on a mediocre story.There are a few bright spots in the film, the best of which is Marisa Tomei as Adam Sandler's girlfriend. I saw part of My Cousin Vinny again recently, and found myself thinking that she actually deserved the Oscar she got for her role in that film. She is a gifted actress and she lights up the screen in almost every scene she is in here. Unfortunately, those scenes are too few to salvage the uninspired story. John Turturro has a few good scenes as a psychopath and John C. Reilly has a few inspired moments as a backyard-bully turned Buddhist monk. In the end these few inspired scenes make for enough good material for a not-so-terrible episode of a thirty-minute sitcom (allowing 12 minutes for commercials). There are also a few funny cameos of real-life celebs in the movie, but collectively they fill about two minutes of screen time. The rest of the time is filled with prepubescent humor and stale sight gags stretched way too thin to carry the film across the finish line.My advice is to find someone with some editing equipment and splice together your own clips from films by Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler (think Waterboy meets A Few Good Men). You'll have more fun and the end result couldn't possibly be any worse than this.
A good sign that a movie is going to be bad is if the three stars haven't made a total of three good movies in their lifetimes. This is a perfect example of that theory. Sandler had Airheads and Tomei had My Cousin Vinny but neither were even the star in their lone good movies. I've never seen a Jack Nicholson movie because I value my time. A friend of mine asked me if I had seen this and by the time I figured out that she wasn't talking about the Charlie Sheen show, she had forgotten why she asked in the first place. That's another omen. But being the good friend that I am, I decided to give this thing a shot. That was possibly the worst decision I made in my life. There's no reason to even talk about the supposed plot and acting because the movie ended for me at the one minute mark. That's right. By the time they had wasted one minute of my life they had jumped the shark and raped my brain. Immediately after the words Anger Management leave the screen it says Brooklyn, 1978. Then we see a kid wearing a Dukes Of Hazzard shirt. Even though I'm immediately suspicious, I decide to at least wait to hear some dialogue. Wouldn't you know it, the first line is "Hey Dave I like your Dukes Of Hazzard shirt". OK, now they had forced my hand, I had to pause the movie and find out when the show started. I literally only had to type "duk" into the search bar here and without clicking anything I can see that the show started in 1979. That's where a smart person would have turned off this trash. If they couldn't even do the slightest amount of research for a movie that cost $75 million to make(with no special effects), how can the rest of the movie not be total trash? It can't and it wasn't. I watch tons of low budget sci-fi movies and they all have better plots, acting and comedy. Never see this garbage.
Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor (Jack Nicholson).Sandler has a special kind of humor, and it is one that has matured over the years. His classics will always be "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison", but his follow-ups are pretty decent, too. This one has all the things we enjoy -- the juvenile humor, the excellent ensemble cast -- and adds in Jack Nicholson, so rarely ever makes a bad film.One thing about Sandler's films is that he tends to keep the same ensemble but rotates the leading lady (other than Drew Barrymore). This time we have Marisa Tomei, which is a stroke of genius. Obviously she knows comedy (My Cousin Vinny), but has branched out to some serious drama. In this film, she straddles both and rally grounds the humor. Her character is indispensable.
If there wasn't Nicholson in this movie, there would've been people waiting to be rescued from the theaters. Nicholson arrives just in time to lift a rather slim storyline. There are a lot of funny moments, but it just ends up getting repetitive after a while. There's only so much a Sandler-film-viewer can tolerate, you know. I'm not going to give any of the plot away. You can pretty much guess what it'd be after the first couple of minutes after the movie starts. But only when the story becomes totally clichéd that Nicholson steps in to lift the movie with his bare hands. It is only him and Marisa Tomei that lift the film from the bottom and make it somewhat watchable. Adam Sandler is an actor with so much potential, but ends up making rom-coms and plainly senseless comedies. I'd love to see him in a role similar to the one in Punch Drunk Love for which he actually got nominated for a Golden Globe. He can act. There was never any doubt in that. People would just like to see more of its display in the coming years.