| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (2005) |
| Director | Mike Binder |
| Writer | Mike Binder |
| Lead Actor | Joan Allen |
| Cast | Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Date | April 1, 2005 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 58m(118 min) |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.8/10 |
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THE UPSIDE OF ANGER Upscale Detroit suburban wife and mother Terry Wolfmeyer (Joan Allen) is angry because her husband has disappeared. She begins drinking heavily, leaving her four daughters Hadley (Alicia Witt), Emily (Keri Russell), Andy (Erika Christensen) and Popeye (Evan Rachel Wood) to cope the best they can. Popeye, the youngest, is the wise voice-over observer as problems arise.
Denny (Kevin Costner), a neighbor who is a pro-baseball star turned radio talk-show host, stops by while in a marijuana and beer stupor to discuss a business matter with Terry’s missing husband. Eventually, Denny and Terry become friends, drinking partners and lovers, but her relationship with her daughters becomes strained.
Anger is drama, comedy, mild love story and mystery. Above all, it is an examination of how anger can eat away at a person and threaten all the good things in life for the sake of one bad thing over which that person has no control. “Why is it,” asks Popeye, “that people bite rather than kiss and slap rather than stroke?” Eventually, this journey changes Terry and her relationship with her daughters for the better.
Writer, director, actor Mike Binder has created a superb movie, not so much by making a contemporary women’s film that evokes, in broad strokes, the outline of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (mother and four daughters struggling and alone because the father is away), but because he is exploring the nature of all human anger. He deftly shows us where anger can lead us and the destructive behavior it fuels, as well as a way out.
Joan Allen and Kevin Costner both give believable performances. This is not a film that glorifies behaving badly and irresponsibly but rather one that tells the truth about an ugly aspect of our humanity over which we do have control. Alcohol and drug use; brief sexual situations and themes that some adults may find upsetting.
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