Movie
description |
-Joan
Allen
-Kevin
Costner
Starring
Joan
Allen,
THE
UPSIDE
OF
ANGER
spans
three
years
of a
woman's
life
following
her
husband's
sudden
disappearance.
Terry
Wolfmeyer
(Allen),
an
affluent
suburban
Detroit
wife
and
mother,
goes
from
a
paragon
of
sweetness
to a
volcano
of
rage
in
the
wake
of
her
husband's
desertion;
she
thinks
he
has
jetted
off
to
Sweden
with
his
Swedish
secretary.
Barely
holding
it
together
for
her
four
daughters
(distinctively
played
by
Alicia
Witt,
Keri
Russell,
Erika
Christensen,
and
Evan
Rachel
Wood),
Terry
fitfully
adjusts
while
befriending
Denny
Davies
(Costner),
a
retired
baseball
player
and
radio
personality
up
the
street
who
shares
her
love
of
the
all-day
cocktail
hour.
Allen
is a
delightful
force,
displaying
serious
comedic
talent
and
effortlessly
stealing
each
scene.
She
glows
with
an
unaffected
sexiness,
while
Costner
shines
as
the
seemingly
all-wrong
man
who
turns
out
to
be
completely
right.
Writer-director
Mike
Binder
casts
a
keenly
perceptive
eye
on
male-female
relationships,
a
topic
he
also
explored
in
his
critically-acclaimed
HBO
series
THE
MIND
OF
THE
MARRIED
MAN.
Binder
also
appears
in a
role
as
Denny's
producer
Shep,
a
shallow
womanizer
with
surprisingly
resonant
reasons
for
being
shallow.
As
the
three
years
pass,
Terry
and
her
daughters
are
confronted
with
varying
individual
situations,
choices,
and
compromises,
with
moments
that
ring
true
in
ways
both
moving
and
strikingly
funny.
THE
UPSIDE
OF
ANGER
is
an
ideal
combination
of
drama
and
humor.
Portions
of
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Copyright
1948-2006
Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
Europe
Ltd.
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rights
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