Jack cats around with Sandler's anger
by Nick Nance, Managing Editor


    No matter how calm, cool and laid back someone appears, everyone has a breaking point.
    Anger is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
    In the recently released comedy Anger Management, Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is a cool-tempered, quiet executive assistant, who on the surface has everything going for him.
   What he does not realize is he is a time bomb waiting to explode.
    The movie begins with Buznik flying to a business meeting in St. Louis.
    When Buznik asks a flight attendant for a set of headphones, he receives attitude in return. Buznik is then shot with a stun gun by an air marshal. This scene plays out with Dr. Buddy Rydell, played by Jack Nic-holson, as a witness.
    Buznik is then forced by a judge to attend anger management therapy.
    When he arrives at therapy, Buznik encounters Bob Knight, who learns he is in the wrong therapy session and throws a Bobby Knight-like fit with chair throwing and everything as he exits to go to the sex-aholics anonymous down the hall.
     Dr. Rydell then enters the room, so Buznik thinks he will no have no problem getting out of his required therapy with the help of his friend. However, while trying to help his anger ally, Buznik breaks someone's nose in a bar fight.
     He is then forced to undergo a strict regimen of therapy.
     As part of his therapy program, Rydell is required to be with Buznik at all times, including work, home and bed. Blunder after blunder follows Buznik during his therapy program.
     His girlfriend (Marisa Tomei) grows tired of Buznik's inability to commit, express his feelings in public or even kiss her around anyone.
    Buznik's trip through therapy is unbelievably funny.
    Nicholson and Sandler make a great comedy duo that leaves the viewer wondering why they have not partnered for any movies previously.
    Woody Harrelson makes a cameo appearance as a cross-dressing German hooker; his part incites instant laughter.
    Tomei adds just the right touch as Sandler's love interest, and her beauty is perfectly captured.
    Anger Management is a great comedy experience worthy of anyone's time.

 



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