September 5 - Anger Management

Today’s movie is a comedy with a scene that happens on September 5. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

ANGER MANAGEMENT    

After a traumatic childhood experience Dave Buznik learns to fear PDAs and suppress his emotions. His boss takes credit for his work, while Andrew his girlfriend Linda’s ex still hangs out with her and is condescending to Dave at their common workplace. After an incident on an airplane where Dave gets tasered he is sentenced to anger management therapy with Dr. Buddy Rydell.  After getting in a bar fight caused by another of Buddy’s clients, Dave is threatened with jail, but Buddy moves in with him to offer more interventionist therapy. After Dave jokes with Buddy about the seriousness of an operation Buddy’s mother is having, Buddy promises to get him back. Buddy tries to maneuver Dave into a one-night stand with a girl and then tells Linda, Dave’s girlfriend about it as revenge. Linda suggests a break from their relationship and starts dating Buddy. Then on September 5, 2003 [1:20:09 to 1:31:10] Dave confronts his boss and Andrew after Andrew is given the promotion Dave earned. Dave heads to Yankee stadium where he thinks Buddy is going to propose to Linda. After admitting he has an anger problem and agreeing to kiss Linda in front of the entire stadium, she accepts Dave’s marriage proposal. Dave learns that most of what he’s been through was staged by Buddy and Linda (who weren’t really dating) for his benefit to help him control his anger. .

                    

Producers - Jack Giarraputo and Barry Bernandi

Director - Peter Segal

Screenwriter - David S. Dorfman

Runtime – 1 hour 46 minutes

Released – April 11, 2003

Starring –

Adam Sandler as David "Dave" Buznik

Jack Nicholson as Dr. Buddy Rydell

Marisa Tomei as Linda

Jonathan Loughran as Nate

Kurt Fuller as Frank Head

Krista Allen as Stacy

Clint Black as Masseur

John Turturro as Chuck

Lynne Thigpen as Judge Brenda Daniels

Woody Harrelson as Galaxia the tranvestite prostitute/Gary
the Security Guard

Kevin Nealon as Sam, Dave's Lawyer

Allen Covert as Andrew

Isaac C. Singleton Jr. as Air Marshal

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015