Production Year: 2003 - Comedy - Director: Peter Segal, James L. Brooks, George Bloomfield - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over
In his older years, Jack Nicholson did not exactly choose a life of obscurity, but made some excellent career moves that has maintained his status as leading actor and showed he... more
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Anger Management, a comedy that might have been subtitled "The Funny and the Furious". Nicholson and especially Sandler have screen personas that partially rely on pe...
Anger Management, a comedy that might have been subtitled "The Funny and the Furious". Nicholson and especially Sandler have screen personas that partially rely on pe...
Anger Management, a comedy that might have been subtitled "The Funny and the Furious". Nicholson and especially Sandler have screen personas that partially rely on pent-up anxieties, so there's definite potential in teaming them as a mild-mannered designer of pet clothing for chubby cats (Sandler) who's been ordered to undergo anger management therapy with a zany counsellor (Nicholson) prone to occasional tantrums and devious manipulation. Surely this meandering comedy looked better on the page; director Peter Segal scores a few lucky scenes (particularly Sandler's encounter with a Buddhist monk, played by John C Reilly), but a flood of cameos (Heather Graham, Woody Harrelson, Rudolph Giuliani, and others) can't match the number of laughs that fall flat. As Sandler's understanding girlfriend, Marisa Tomei plays a pivotal role in a happy ending that leaves everyone smiling, with the possible exception of the audience. --Jeff Shannon
Anger Management, a comedy that might have been subtitled "The Funny and the Furious". Nicholson and especially Sandler have screen personas that partially rely on pent-up anxieties, so there's definite potential in teaming them as a mild-mannered designer of pet clothing for chubby cats (Sandler) who's been ordered to undergo anger management therapy with a zany counsellor (Nicholson) prone to occasional tantrums and devious manipulation. Surely this meandering comedy looked better on the page; director Peter Segal scores a few lucky scenes (particularly Sandler's encounter with a Buddhist monk, played by John C Reilly), but a flood of cameos (Heather Graham, Woody Harrelson, Rudolph Giuliani, and others) can't match the number of laughs that fall flat. As Sandler's understanding girlfriend, Marisa Tomei plays a pivotal role in a happy ending that leaves everyone smiling, with the possible exception of the audience. --Jeff Shannon
Actor(s): Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Luis Guzman, Marisa Tomei, Alan Covert, Kurt Fuller, Lynn Thigpen, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight
Director(s): Peter Segal, George Bloomfield, James L. Brooks
Genre: Comedy
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2003
Running Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: A box set featuring 'Anger Management' Dave Buznick, a usually calm and collected man suffers from a bout of air rage and finds himself in court. He is sentenced by the judge to undergo anger management therapy and that brings him into contact with therapist Dr Buddy Rydell... and 'As Good As It Gets' Melvin Udall is a novelist who delights in his own ability to offend, repulse, affront and wound - not minding who he upsets in the process. It takes waitress Carol Connelly and the unexpected act of kindness of babysitting a neighbour's dog to put him back on track...
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 17/11/2003
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: CDRP 1273
Barcode: 5035822127319
DVD Description
In his older years, Jack Nicholson did not exactly choose a life of obscurity, but made some excellent career moves that has maintained his status as leading actor and showed he was hungry for more nuanced performances. Both these films, ANGER MANAGEMENT and AS GOOD AS IT GETS, a duo of films that celebrate humanity, demonstrate Nicholson's mastery over complex, crotchety, neurotic or otherwise imperfect people. A brilliant, refreshing combination that shows us modern life as it actually is, not necessarily sugar-coated for Hollywood. See individual titles for greater detail.
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Commentaries, Featurettes, Theatrical Trailers
Advantages: Two good actors Disadvantages: Not as funny as I thought it would be
...I thought that Angermanagement was going to be full of laughs like most of Adam Sandlers films but although it was somewhat funny it didn't make me laugh as much as I thought it would. Adam Sandler plays a guy that has anger inside of him but acts pretty laid back and calm, everybody walks over him until he gets in trouble on a plane for assaulting an air stewardess which he did not actually do, then the judge tells him that he has to do angermanagement. After attending his first class he starts to get in more and more trouble most of it caused by Jack Nicholson who runs the angermanagement class, Jack Nicholson then steals his girlfriend and has a injunction order made against Adam so that he cant go near him or his ex girlfriend only to figure out that it is all one big setup by his girlfriend to get his anger out of him. Funny...
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Advantages: Jack Nicholson at a push Disadvantages: Very weak storyline, transparent, predictable
...You take one of the best actors in Hollywood at the moment (Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt, A few good Men), put him together with a younger, but firmly established actor (Adam Sandler (Little Nicky, Happy Gilmore), and what are you left with? One of the worst films I have seen in a long time.
The storyline revolves around David Buzznik, a businessman who is constantly being pushed around by his boss. During a flight to a meeting he is wrongly accused of having an anger problem, and is forced to attend angermanagement sessions with the eccentric Nicholson.
From there on, everything goes from bad to worse, culminating in Nicholson running off with his girlfriend, or so he thinks.
The end of the film sees David getting the girl, realising that the whole thing was set up by Nicholson, and everyone lives happily ever after...
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Advantages: Extreamly Funny Comedy Disadvantages: lack of thought/time in film
...I went to see AngerManagement at the cinema with my girl friend we both were laughing almost the full way through the film. The storyline is good and the jokes are funny but a bit of neatening on the story wouldn't go a miss. Staring fairly known actors such as Marisa Tomei, Woody Harrelson, Luis Guzman, Harry Dean Stanton, John Turturro and Michelle Rodriguez the film is about a guy who seams to be caught up into the strangest situations by doing nothing intensionally wrong.Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler are the main caracters in the film where Adam Sandler plays the business man who gets into a bit of bother and gets refered to an AngerManagement course run by a Dr Buddy Rydell played by Jack Nicholson. Both of the actors play their leading roles well and is a definate to buy when it is released on DVD/Video....
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