Anger Management
Tags: comedy, psychological, violence, flashback, humor, entertaining

Plot synopsis:
In 1979, a hot day in the city finds a whole neighborhood of kids and adults relaxing out doors on the street. A nerdy young boy in love with a beautiful girl is about to receive his first kiss. Just then, the local bully yanks down the boy's shorts and underwear, humiliating him to the laughter of the entire crowd.In the present, timid businessman Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) works for a pet clothing company in New York City. His abrasive boss Frank Head (Kurt Fuller) takes credit for Dave's money-making work and steps on him in return. His loving girlfriend, Linda (Marisa Tomei) is supportive but wishes he would stand up for himself. Her college friend, Andrew (Allen Covert), wants to date her and treats Dave like a loser. Dave just wants to avoid conflict (and any hint of public affection.)When an inflight misunderstanding with a stewardess goes haywire, Dave is ordered by Judge Daniels (Lynne Thigpen) to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of unorthodox specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson).At his first anger management group meeting, self-effacing Dave is certain he doesn't belong there and asks Buddy to let him out of the course. Odd and volatile characters such as Nate (Jonathan Loughran), Lou (Luis Guzmán), and Chuck (John Turturro) startle him. Buddy pushes Dave hard until Dave actually starts shouting. At the end of the meeting, Buddy says Dave needs to be there. He also arranges for him to pair up with eccentric Chuck for mutual support.As Dave prepares for a romantic evening with Linda, Chuck turns up on his doorstep and insists Dave fulfill his support duties. They go to a restaurant, Chuck picks a fight for no reason ... and Dave ends up back in court on charges of assaulting a waitress and a blind man (Harry Dean Stanton). Judge Daniels orders Dave to step up his therapy or wind up in jail. Buddy decides to move in with Dave for intensive treatment.Buddy's obnoxious behavior includes everything from throwing out Dave's CDs, nudity, sleeping with Dave in his bed (and farting), throwing food when it's not done his way, flirting with Dave's girlfriend, and pissing off Dave's boss. He forces Dave stop driving on the way to work in order to sing the show tune "I Feel Pretty", while blocking traffic on a bridge. He takes Dave to a street corner and pays a transvestite (Woody Harrelson) to get in the back seat with Dave. Dave is horrified, and finally starts yelling and demanding that the shemale get away from him. Buddy explains that this is an important step forward in the program: righteous anger.Dave and Buddy go to Boston to see Buddy's mom. At a bar, Buddy lures Dave into hitting on a beautiful girl (Heather Graham) using a crude pickup line. To his shock, she takes the bait. When he looks around, Buddy has left him and he doesn't even know where to go. The girl takes him home and tries to seduce him, and turns violent when he refuses because of his commitment to Linda. She throws him out in the rain where he screams back at her.On their return trip from Boston, Dave falls asleep. When he wakes up, Buddy has taken him to an out of the way Buddhist sanctuary. His old nemesis Arnie Shankman has become a monk. Buddy incites the two to fight, and finally their anger ignites. Dave discovers the heady feeling of a little righteous revenge.When he meets with Linda, Dave tries to nerve himself up to propose to her but is unable to do so. Recognizing the lost moment, she says that Buddy has advised that they separate for a while. Dave is devastated, but Buddy assures him things will be fine. When he learns that Linda will be going out to a swank restaurant with some guy, Dave decides to show up with the two porn star girls (Krista Allen and January Jones) from his anger management class. The scantily clad girls accompany him in ... where he finds out that Linda's date is Buddy himself. Buddy swears he is dating her for Dave's benefit, that nothing is going on. But later that night Buddy confesses that the date led to kissing and then announces that he and Linda are in love. Dave loses it and leaps for Buddy ... and Dave is back in court as the judge finds him incurable, promising that at his sentencing he will be going to prison. A bruised, battered and bandaged Buddy is present, accompanied by Linda. Dave sees the two enter a taxi outside (and Buddy removing his neck brace!), as Linda gazes at Dave regretfully.Dave finds out that Buddy is taking Linda to a Yankees game, and realizes that Buddy is about to steal his proposal "idea" (having it appear on the marquee). He rushes to the stadium to prevent this disaster. Guards try to stop him as he storms on to the field and appropriates the microphone to plead with Linda not to marry Buddy, that Buddy is crazy. Dave admits that he was an angry guy, that letting people step on him was wrong. He tells Linda that he loves her and wants to marry her.Linda agrees, but on the condition that he kiss her in front of everyone in the stadium. He hesitates, but finally gathers his courage and does it. Amazingly, the loving message appears on the marquee, and Linda happily tells him that he just graduated from anger management! Waiting for the train home, she explains that she'd read Buddy's book and asked if he could help Dave. The stewardess, the judge and many others were in on the plot to help Dave find and express his anger.A celebration party in the park with the whole anger management class is interrupted by a man with a gun. Dave stands up to him and refuses to be afraid, while everyone else begs him not to be a hero and get himself killed. The gunman fires - his water pistol, as the whole thing turns out to be Dave's prank revenge on everyone for duping him.

Review: Jack definitely takes over Sandler, Anger Management is good for a few laughs.
he's the sole reason this movie is funny.So, Dave (Sandler) is this geeky guy, who has never lost his temper in his life, who by fault of an mistake in an airplane is ordered by a judge to see a anger consultant Buddy Rydel (Nicholosn), whose unorthodox anger management methods soon drive this mosey man crazy.
And then there's Dave's personal problems with his girlfriend Linda (Marisa Tomei).As for comedy Anger Managment flows pretty nicely and the jokes are mostly in their correct places and it has very few awkward moments, which seldom plague comedies of this particular genre.Can't actually think of anything extremely negative to say about it, I'm very pleasantly surprised by the flick, it gave me good laughs and it will probably last multiple viewings, thanks to Nicholson, who really keeps this movie above the gray mass of comedy sea..
After a very small misunderstanding aboard an aeroplane escalates out of control, Dave is sentenced to Anger Management at the hands of Jack Nicholson (Buddy Rydell) Dr. Rydell is a therapist with a tendency for the unusual.
As the therapy progresses things seem to get worse and after another huge slice of misfortune, Dr. Rydell is forced to move in with Dave and conduct 30 days of intensive Anger Management.With good comic performances from Sandler and especially Nicholson and some hilarious interaction from the support cast 'Anger Management' is certainly not short of laughs; but it does seem to get a little muddled along the way.
Jack Nicholson as the quirky anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell and Adam Sandler as patient Dave Buznik.
Sure, it's not a real 90's Sandler movie, but it's funny in it's own way.The story: An easy going man, Dave Buznik, is falsely accused of abuse to a flight attendant.
Well, let's just say Buddy needs a little anger management himself.The acting in this movie is very good, with stars like Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro, Jonathan Loughran, and many more.Score: ****/*****.
Anger Management is probably the best example of 'good actors, bad movie' syndrome.
He acts perfectly sensible most of the time, and it's the world that's turned against him.Sandler does ultimately resort to some of his traditional antics later in the film, like his run-in with an old bully in a sequence that manages to take potshots at both religion and fat people, reminding me once again how much better the Farrelly Brothers are at handling political incorrectness.
Mostly silly, with Adam Sandler doing his usual goofy stuff, but Jack Nicholson - looking like Orson Welles - gives the movie exactly what it needs.
Okay, his movies don't rank amongst personal favorites such as Fight Club or Requiem For A Dream, but they are entertaining, funny, reasonably original for feel-good-movies (except for the obvious boy gets girl scenario, but hey, even that can be nice from time to time (unless you're a cynic)), full of hilarious cameos and supporting roles, and you can see how much fun all the actors have in playing their roles and that they are having a great time doing these movies.
I guess the target audience is the teenagers at the maximum.I think I never saw a movie with Adam Sandler that I liked.
I'm very disappointed for Jack Nicholson, maybe did he need to pay his bill ?The story starts with a stupid injustice that lets you guess the story will follow the mile, good expectation, 'til the end !.
Jack Nicholson -- Adam Sandler -- in a way I should have known better -- but movie review sites gave it  4 1/2 stars (out of five).
This movie looked like it might be fun from the preview, and I like both Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler.
From what I had seen of the trailers it seemed to be a movie with a lot of potential, but two things were competing inside me: I have rarely seen a movie with Jack Nicholson that I didn't like, and I have rarely seen a movie with Adam Sandler that I did like.
He is sentenced to anger management with Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who was actually the jerk sitting next to him on the plane.
"Anger Management" is, in my opinion, one of the better Adam Sandler movies so far.The story in the movie is very simple, but very interesting, especially because of the relationship between Dave Buznik (played by Adam Sandler) and Dr. Ruddy Rydell (played by Jack Nicholson) and the awkward situations that they end up in.
The story is about Dave who is forced into anger management after having gone off his rocks aboard an airplane, and is stuck with the unorthodox methods of Dr. Ruddy Rydell.Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler really have great chemistry on the screen in the movie.
But the movie is carried by Jack Nicholson's performance as the somewhat unique Dr. Ruddy Rydell.One of the most brilliant moments in "Anger Management" is when you get to see Woody Harrelson on the screen as Galaxia, that is just hilarious and off the chart.
The reason why "Anger Management" caught my attention was because I was familiar with the two co-stars, Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson.
There are lots of funny moments after this, including some involving other anger management patients, and also Buddy explaining the difference between explosive and implosive anger, but after a while, I found that the gags usually weren't funny enough to keep the film as entertaining as it looked like it was going to be.
With Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson in the starring roles, it had potential to be much better.
After watching nine tenths of this movie I was inclined to give it a very bad mark like a 3 or 4: an idiotic scenario and a succession of dull gags, episodes and scenes which not even the enormous talent of Jack Nicholson could save.
Another Adam Sandler movie, but this one has Jack Nicholson in it.
It is an entertaining movie and a great chemistry between Sandler and Nicholson and wondering on whether Nicholson's character is a psycho or not.The ending's pretty weird and a lot of people complained about it but like many ofter Sandler movies, it's a feel good one.So like Sandler films, watch this but Jack Nicholson doing an Adam Sandler film is the real reason to watch..
Jack Nicholson and adam sandler are a great pair in this film and i hope they make more together in the future..
This put me at something of a dilemma, as you can imagine, when I felt like going to the movies this weekend.Well, as it happens, Adam Sandler is more annoying than in the Wedding Singer, but less annoying than Big Daddy, Little Nicky, and Billy Madison put together.
He can also pull off the comedy (once you've seen it, just think "Wildebeest!"), which is to be expected (he's not the coolest man in the world for nothing).Marisa Tomei is very good, as are the cameos of Heather Graham, John C Reilly and Woody Harrelson (all high points).
Ex-Mayor Giuliani's (sp?) turn as the standard Rob Schneider "You can do it, Adam!" character is pretty funny too, but since it requires a knowledge of Adam Sandler movies (which I don't have, I hasten to add - I've just read a lot of film magazines!!) to get it, it's not the best joke in the movie.All in all, it's not as good as your top Nicholson movies like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Batman, A Few Good Men etc, but it's pretty damn good for Sandler (The Wedding Singer and Punch-Drunk Love level at least).
This is part script, part over the top (Nicholson) and underwhelming (Sandler) acting.Having had to digest this run-up, we are then presented with a plot line that is funny to the point of smiling about twice, and to the point of laughing just once.Should have stuck to my decision last time I saw a Nicholson movie: don't see another one..
After all of the pieces fall together, that makes the events before far less amusing and it would have been funnier if the characters were to remain the same instead of having some sort of ending revelation.That being said, if you're sick of Adam Sandler's bad movies, this is quite refreshing for the first 7/8 of it, but don't expect much from the ending.
Nevertheless, at least I got one good viewing out of this and I suspect most people would.Adam Sandler is very good as the low-key guy who gets unfairly accused of needing "anger management" and winds up getting it from Jack Nicholson (of all people!).This is very far-fetched and, like most comedies, gets carried away and downright stupid the final 20 minutes.
I am not a fan of Adam Sandler, I find he is good in the more dramatic films(Punch Drunk Love and Reign Over Me are his best performances to me) and save a few exceptions(Spanglish, The Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore) I find him irritating in comedy.
However, Anger Management is one of the exceptions, Sandler is quite good here but Jack Nicholson outshines him.
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsWithout Jack Nicholson's billing as the co star,this is the type of film I otherwise probably wouldn't have cast a second glance.Before I saw the film,I'd only seen the trailer,and already he'd impressed me with his performance.I've never been a fan of Adam Sandler and have never really found the time to savour any of his movies.In fact,the biggest thing I can remember seeing with him in prior to this was the film Coneheads in which he played a character called Carmine.10 years later,and if this doesn't rank as perhaps his star making,most high profile film ever,it's certainly the film with the most interesting concept to me.And it manages to wrangle a fair few laughs,more often than not hysterical ones,out of the script.But,as the main comedic performer,Sandler finds himself acted off the screen by the brilliant-as-ever Nicholson,adapting so perfectly to his role (as was expected) and evoking many laughs because of it.On the basis of this,it hasn't made me want to go and check out any of Sandler's previous works any more,but it sure-as-hell provided a damn fine Sunday afternoon of comedy.****.
Putting Nicholson (as Buddy Rydell) and Sandler (as Dave Buznik) together in the same film is pure brilliance, their funny mannerisms complement each-other.
I believe in my own opinion that Anger Management (2003) is the funniest, most creative Adam Sandler movie since Happy Gilmore.
Watched this movie on a Sunday night and found it just the right flick to end the weekend with a smile on my face.Jack Nicholson seems to be like a good bottle of wine, getting better and better with age.
Anger Management is a fun, hilarious comedy that stars comedic legend Adam Sandler.
Pretty much it sums up to be a decent comedy, with just the mild Adam Sandler acting and the original Jack Nicholson.
The ending is executed brilliantly, suspenseful at times and has got a special feel to it, to basically make Anger Management one of Adam Sandler's best movies of the decade..
Anger Management is not one of Adam Sandler's best films.
The idea of having to go to Anger Management is a good idea but the doctor Sandler goes to see, played by Jack Nicholson, just was lame to me.
Anger Managment is a comedy that stars Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson.
Now it may not have been the best Adam Sandler comedy, but it still is a decent movie to check out.
Anything with the king in it that's right Jack is the king of film is a must watch, and he's OK in comedy as he's helped out greatly in this film by one of the comedy kings Adam Sandler the chemistry between Jack and Adam is just great.The plot of this movie is well done and very funny you have Adam Sandler as a loser pet products salesman who has a misunderstanding aboard an airplane, (which as you later find out is all a setup) and he's ordered to undergo anger management counseling by a specialist named Dr. Buddy Rydell(Jack Nicholson) now the fun begins because Buddy has a very aggressive approach of therapy from unorthodox treatments of sleeping in the nude, odd sayings in place of anger words, going into bars to pick up hot babes, to getting approached by a transvestite hooker, to getting revenge on old enemies of the past.
And his screen time with Adam works so well because when you put together the comedy and intelligence of the two each scene just sparkles.Also the supporting cast is good Marisa Tomei is just so wonderful and cute as Adam's girlfriend who finally finds love in the end.
Overall "Anger Mangement" is a pretty good and funny comedy well worth a watch with the legend Jack Nicholson and funny man Adam Sandler work well together the chemistry is just fine and the plot and funny moments make this one of the best comedies in a long time..
Sandler, usually a rather one dimensional actor that enjoys playing himself on screen (a thing he does quite well, if I might say so myself), blossomed in numerous sub-genres under the hands of Segal, showing he can be romantic as hell (50 First Dates), charismatic (The Longest Yard) and most important – irresistibly cranky (Anger Management).In this comedy powerhouse, Sandler's popular tend to breakdown is boosted with the help of one Jack Nicholson, movie legend and an astonishingly funny actor on his own right.
I can't say I'm much of a fan of Adam Sandler in movies like Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison.
As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the highlights of Nicholson's, and *especially* Sandler's, career and although far from being as good as The Shining or Punch-Drunk Love, "Management" is great fun with enough intelligence and wit to satisfy most viewers, as well as a bit of the usual lowbrow Sandler comedy.
I like Adam Sandler and movies he plays in.
I'm surprised that actors I had enjoyed in the past could have been duped into making this slow yawn fest.I would recommend any other film by Adam or Jack instead of this movie, they usually make entertaining films.I can only hope everyone involved with the making of this movie feels shame and embarrassment at it's release, and thereby learns not to produce such boring works in the future.Having suffered for an hour and forty-nine minutes waiting for this movie to get rolling, to becoming entertaining, I felt compelled to come here and warn you so as to reduce the human suffering that goes on in the world..
I had heard of ways how to calm the temper down before, but I was not so prepared at first to kind of laugh my way along when watching this movie.Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) was on the plane and it was a misunderstanding which led him for anger management classes under instructor Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson).
Buddy's methods may deemed a little...weird and radical, but it somehow seen a change in Dave.There may be some kind of inside jokes of something along the way in the movie, but then I just kept quiet and tried to understand along.For people like me who can kind of flare her temper at times, I found myself giggling at times when watching.A comedy with some crude language being thrown in, but if one gets the drift, one will understand..
And, generally we expect an all around good movie, because after all, we are talking about Adam Sandler, who is one of the many kings of comedy, and Jack Nicholson, who correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't generally pick bad scripts, and is well known for his great choices in film.However, this film lies somewhere between bad and OK.
Some of the movie was entertaining, and I must have been really desperate, because I actually finished the film (which I have a hard time calling, since it's by my standards no "film").Morrisa Tomei played the part of Adam Sandler's girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson drives the movie, pushing poor Adam Sandler to the edge.
Anger management, much as I expected, was funny in many scenes but did not have a decent plot like Happy Gilmore and a few other better movies of Adam Sandler.
Adam Sandler's comedy in Anger Management does not seem very funny at all when you find out the real truth in the end.
Comedy fans should watch a much, much higher valued movie like Meet the Parents because it is funny overall and has a very good plot and plus it is very touching.
Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson deliver a outrageously funny performance and should work again together.
I laughed almost continuously throughout it.Jack Nicholson is great as the anger management coach.
The supporting cast, including Marisa Tomei, John Turturro and the rest of the "anger management" group, and Woody Harrelson and Heather Graham in hilarious cameos make this a fine movie to watch.
(I was on an episode of "Ricki Lake" once; comments about that are pending.)As for ANGER MANAGEMENT itself, it's typical Sandler crap, filled with jokes that aren't funny, ending with the generic, warm-and-fuzzy third act we've all seen countless times before in both better and worse movies.
This movie would have been better suited to a half hour TV comedy, where there is only about seventeen minutes of playing time.Only Jack Nicholson's excellent performance made it tolerable..
That is all right, I enjoy watching Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson practice their craft.
It is a brainless piece of film making, which managed to include as many cameos as possible, through Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandlers many contacts.
Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler make a wonderful team.
Although there were a few funny lines and scenes, I expected much, much more from anything featuring Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler.
Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson.