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Article: `Anger Management'.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2003
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Byline: Philip Wuntch
"Anger Management" offers a course in career management.
You can't shake the feeling that Jack Nicholson, in the full roar of his maniacal glee, seeks to woo the audience that avoided his relatively subdued "About Schmidt."
Or that Adam Sandler, the chirpiest neurotic since early Gene Wilder, also hopes to reassure fans who found "Punch-Drunk Love" puzzling.
Despite such calculations, "Anger Management" is a happy experience. Even its most predictable moments earn chuckles, and much of the film rates guffaws. It's the sort of Pavlovian comedy that expects laughs just from the sight of Woody Harrelson playing a ...