Anger Management
Studio: Sony Pictures
Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/angermanagement/
Release Date: 2003-04-11
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Krista Allen, Marisa Tomei, Allen Covert
Director: Peter Segal
Screenwriter: Dave Dorfman
WorkNameSort: Anger Management
Our Rating: 2.00
Unbridled rage is always funny, right? Not in this meandering comedy, which sentences a falsely accused batterer (Adam Sandler) to 30 days of supervision by a manipulative counselor (Jack Nicholson). A riff on post-Sept. 11 paranoia hints at a misanthropic bonanza, but the movie quickly becomes bogged down in off-message penis gags and B-list cameos. Sandler did angry better in Happy Gilmore.
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2003.