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Director:
Peter SegalStory:
David DorfmanGenres:
Comedy, RomanceCertification:
Parents strongly cautionedStatus:
CompletedSoundmix:
DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Plot Summary
Anger Management
Mild-mannered timid businessman Dave Buznik who works for a pet clothing company out of New York City. He's got an abrasive boss named Mr. Frank Head who frequently takes credit for his work and steps on him in return. He's got a loving girlfriend, Linda, whose best friend is her condescending college ex, Andrew.
But when a misunderstanding aboard an airplane goes haywire, Dave is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell, who is an unpredictable, psychopathic character. As the relationship between Dave and Buddy becomes more tense, when the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc Dave's life, and Buddy might be the only one who can save him from a problem he recognizes right away in his patient, that could only get worse.
Goofs
Anger Management
- Continuity: In Yankee Stadium, when Dave attempts to run out and take over the P.A. microphone, the mic shown on the stand is a popular news mike - an Electro-Voice 635 - a wired mike, with no cord plugged into it. However, when he actually gets out there, and takes the mike off the stand, it's a Samson wireless mike, with the little antenna sticking out the back.
- Continuity: When Dr. Rydell and Dave leave the monastery, you can clearly see two passenger vehicles and a patrol car in the background with its lights on controlling traffic as they drive down the road. In the next shot, the trailing vehicles and the patrol car have vanished.
- Continuity: The screening of Tomcats (2001) on the plane jumps between scenes out of chronological order each time the screen is shown.
- Continuity: In the car, Dave's seatbelt is twisted/straight between shots.
- Continuity: When Dave is telling Linda how much he loves her at the Yankee game his voice is echoing like he is talking into a mic, but there is no mic.
- Continuity: As Dave comes down the courthouse steps after his third trip to court, the same red-headed woman passes him twice.
- Continuity: When David is in the car with the prostitute, he starts recording the encounter after she sings "I feel like dancing!" However, when David is talking to his lawyer, the recorder replays the singing, which was not recorded.
- Continuity: On the bridge, you can see in the back window that the taxi is about to come alongside David's car. However, several more cars pass before the taxi stops beside the car.
- Continuity: When Dave and Dr. Rydell sit in the plane, we see a middle row of seats (i.e. two aisles). The exterior view of the plane shows a Boeing 737 which doesn't have a middle row.
- Continuity: On the bridge, the car window is down/up/down between shots.
Taglines
Anger Management
- Feel the love
- Let the healing begin
Trivias
Anger Management
- At the same time this movie was shooting the hospital scene on the ramps at Columbia University, Comedy Central was filming Porn 'n Chicken (2002) (TV) right outside. In fact, the graduation set for Porn 'n Chicken is in the distance outside the glass wall. Kurt Fuller appears in both films.
- Dave tells Frank Head (Kurt Fuller) to "have fun looking like Colonel Klink". In Auto Focus (2002), Kurt Fuller played the role of Werner Klemperer, the actor who portrayed Col. Klink in "Hogan's Heroes" (1965).
- The in-flight movie that Buddy is enjoying is Tomcats (2001).
- The shots of the Boston Medical Center are actually of Alfred Lerner Hall, the student center at Columbia University.
- Buddy picks up a golf club and a baseball bat before choosing the baseball bat to smash the window of the Lexus. In 1994, Jack Nicholson was cited for smashing a man's window with a golf club in a bout of rage.
- Adam Sandler's character Dave wears a West High School T-Shirt, West High School is a school in Manchester, New Hampshire. West is the arch-rival to Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire which Adam Sandler attended.
- Adam Sandler donated copies of this movie to U.S. military bases supporting Operating Enduring/Iraqi Freedom in the Persian Gulf as soon as it was released. The donated version contains a 5-minute introduction by Adam Sandler, who personally thanks the troops for what they are doing.
- Lynne Thigpen's last film. She died only a month before the film's release. The film is dedicated to her memory.
- In the scene where Buddy (Jack Nicholson) throws the eggs away and yells "I said over easy!", he is wearing a United States Marine Corps T-shirt. Nicholson famously played Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC in A Few Good Men (1992).
- "Meatball" the cat that models the cat clothing is also the name of Adam Sandler's deceased dog.
Awards
Anger Management
- Teen Choice Award
Event: Teen Choice Awards
Result: Won
Category: Choice Movie Hissy Fit
Recipient(s): Adam Sandler - BMI Film Music Award
Event: BMI Film & TV Awards
Result: Won
Category:
Recipient(s): Teddy Castellucci - Young Artist Award
Event: Young Artist Awards
Result: Nominated
Category: Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress
Recipient(s): Melissa Mitchell