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Genres:
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Drama /
Comedy /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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Mike Binder
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Actors:
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Kevin Costner,
Mike Binder,
Suzanne Bertish,
Stephen Greif,
Tom Harper,
Magdalena Manville,
Dane Christensen,
David Firth,
Rod Woodruff,
Joan Allen,
Erika Christensen,
Keri Russell,
Alicia Witt,
Evan Rachel Wood,
Danny Webb
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)102
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Plot Summary:
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A sharp-witted suburban helpmate, Terry Wolfmeyer, is socialistic to scrape her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get disinterested more hectic when she falls benefit of her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball headliner turned present D.J. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to doctor their Mum's saccharine dilemmas as well as their own.
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Upside of Anger, The
Claudia PuigThe primary upside to The Upside of Anger is the presence of Joan Allen in the lead role.
Allen is one of the most reliable American actresses, and her intelligence and wit raise the quality of a movie that often feels as if it belongs on the Lifetime cable network. She transcends the soap-opera nature of the story and lends the film emotional heft.
Allen plays the prickly and sharp-tongued Terry, a suburban mother of four daughters whose husband suddenly leaves her. She grows embittered seemingly overnight, relying on booze and sarcasm for solace. Her daughters experience their own psychological and physical traumas to add to her mounting unease.
Kevin Costner does a fine job as Terry's laid-back drinking buddy/neighbor who is surpr...
Upside of Anger, The
Carina ChocanoSay you were actor-writer-director Mike Binder, and you lived every day with the terrible burden of having loosed a show called The Mind of the Married Man (one of HBO's late, unlamented early stabs at a male Sex and the City) on a trusting world. What would you do for your next trick?
If you really wanted to atone, you'd make a smart, funny, warmhearted movie about a bitter, elitist, stay-at-home lush; set her up with the sweet, washed-up, drunken jock down the street; cast yourself in a minor role as the twitchy, cradle-robbing lech who winds up alone, and then, OK, bygones would be bygones.
The Upside of Anger is a terrible title for a genuinely likable comedy-drama about a housewife who falls rather extravagantly to pieces after her husba...
Upside of Anger, The
Kevin Costner and Joan Allen star as troubled middle-aged suburbanites brought together through loneliness in this comical relationships drama
The Upside Of Anger opens with a narration from the youngest of three daughters, Popeye (Wood), who observes that her previously pleasant mother Terry (Allen) became perpetually angry after the disappearance of her husband, assumed to have run off with his secretary. The implicit message in the title is that there is a silver lining to the dark cloud: the anger forces confrontation, hence enhancing communication and helping relationships develop.
Despite the fact that events in the film theoretically support this - Terry is drawn closer to neighbour Denny (Costner), and she eventually becomes more open with h...
Upside of Anger, The
The Upside Of Displease opens with a narration from the youngest of three daughters, Popeye (Wood), who observes that her then pleasant mother Terry (Allen) became perpetually hot under the collar after the disappearance of her husband, usurped to keep overreach off with his secretary. The unconditional message in the title is that there is a mellifluous lining to the dark cloud: the anger forces confrontation, in the future enhancing communication and help relationships evolve. Despite the items that events in the skin theoretically this - Terry is drawn closer to neighbour Denny (Costner), and she at the end of the day becomes more open with her daughters - the delivery of the message lacks conviction. There's miniature connotation in what are intended to b...
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