A woman is abandoned by her husband and is left to raise her four daughters alone. She begins to see her neighbor, an ex-baseball player and a drinking buddy. Slowly, he becomes an additional member of her dysfunctional family.
The 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...
Say 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 genui...
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 th...
Upside of Anger, The
When her husband leaves without a goodbye, housewife Joan Allen turns to the bottle to cope with rejection and raise...
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 her daughters - the delivery of the message lacks convi...
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