Article: 'Anger Management': Here's Pie in Your Eye; Adam Sandler, Up to His Old Tricks

Jack Nicholson's eyes are hooded by brows that leap into circumflexes on command: At his whim they turn the actor's face into a rictus of demented glee or a reptilian death mask. In "Anger Management," Nicholson's collaboration with the comedian Adam Sandler, he adds a black beret and sunglasses to the mix, creating the physical persona of a demonic aging hipster.

Nicholson plays an anger management consultant named Buddy Rydell, who meets Sandler's character, Dave Buznik, on an airplane and then proceeds to foment a confrontation between Buznik and a flight attendant. The altercation escalates until the woman's arm is broken, and Buznik is assigned to an anger management program that is ...

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