Anger Management

Following in the wake of his art house experiment Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler again gives a relatively restrained performance but is back in the mainstream with this comedy. He plays mild-mannered businessman Dave Buznik who, after a misunderstanding regarding some in-flight headphones, is ordered into anger management under the counsel of spirited shrink Dr Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson). Rydell's methods are unusual, to say the least — he moves in with Sandler while making a move on his girlfriend Marisa Tomei — but director Peter Segal never really mines the comedy that this pairing and premise deserve. However, this does get by on true star power, Nicholson being one of the very few Hollywood actors who can out-shout Sandler.

"...You smile just thinking about Adam Sandler as a schlub forced to take anger-management classes from a rageaholic shrink....Lock up the kids and grandma, this is Jack unleashed..."