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Anger Management

Director:
Peter Segal

Cast:
Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Krista Allen, Marisa Tomei, Allen Covert

Review:

Jack Nicholson is a genius. He's brilliant in almost everything he does and this is proof. Yeah, Adam Sandler can deliver when he really has to [and he isn't actually bad here], but Jack shines here like he rarely does, ever. He rises so far above his material that it's scary. Sure, he won't get an Oscar here, but he deserves one.

The skinny: Dave Buznick(Sandler) gets on an airplane to discover someone's taken his seat. Acting calm and serene, he's attacked by the attendant staff, and is sentenced by a judge (Lynn Thigpen) to attend Buddy Rydell's (Nicolson) anger treatment program.

Buddy then succeeds in destroying Dave's life.

Cute huh?

Marrissa Tomei is okay as Dave's girlfriend, but this is Nicholson's film and his alone. Sandler can't hold a candle to him. The script is rather rank. Jokes work, and by the end it delivers, but the fact is that the winces outnumber the laughs two to one during the first part of the film. I'm not really sure if this is worth viewing, but if you want to actually see great acting, that's when an actor towers over everything and everyone. See this.

Eric Lurio