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ANGER MANAGEMENT
(2003)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jack
Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Krista Allen, Luis Guzman, Heather Graham, Woody
Harrelson, John C. Reilly, and John Turturro.
Directed by Peter Segal.
Written by David Dorfman.
Produced by Barry Bernardi, Derek Dauchy, Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo, John
Jacobs and Joe Roth.
Rated PG-13 (on appeal for crude sexual content and language).
Running time: 106 minutes. Released by Columbia Pictures.
Review By Peter Veugelaers © 2003:
- You'll
need a survivor pack
In "Anger Management" box
office drawcard Adam Sandler plays Dave Buznik, a designer of cat apparel, who
continually loses out on a job promotion to a guy who is creatively his junior.
While traveling via plane he is apprehended for assaulting an airline hostess,
although he denies it, and sent to 30 days of anger management therapy.
His therapist is played by Jack Nicholson
who has an unusual and aggressive approach to counseling in that he thrives in a
live-in situation with Dave and watches his every move until he graduates step by
step up the therapeutic ladder.....more
Review By Blake French:

- Electrified turkey
If you tell your friend a joke, he’ll
laugh, unless, of course, it’s a bad joke, in which case he’ll cringe. But if
you start to tell your friend a joke but change the subject before the punch line,
he will not laugh nor cringe, but probably just stand there and look at you
dumfounded. If you do this over and over, more likely than not, your friend will
not be your friend for long.
Hence the problem with Anger Management,
a film that irritated me so profusely I wanted to seek just that. It is one big
joke without a punch line; it develops humorous situations but doesn’t include
any payoffs. For example, Woody Harrelson plays a New York cross dresser who, at
one point in the movie, comes on to the character played by Adam Sandler. Funny
possibilities abound, but Harrelson exits the scene before anything funny actually
occurs. This is maddening, and the movie does it over and over again, ranking it
among the worst comedies to date in a year that includes Kangaroo Jack and Old
School.....more
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Anger
Management
Average
Customer Review: 
The
irresistible pairing of Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler is the best reason
to see Anger Management, a comedy that might loosely be called The
Funny and the Furious.
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No, Jack. A hug will not make it better.
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