The anger test

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Movie
German title The anger test
Original title Anger management
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Peter Segal
script David Dorfman
production Barry Bernardi
Jack Giarraputo
music Teddy Castellucci
camera Donald M. McAlpine
cut Jeff Gourson
occupation

Die Wutprobe (Original title: Anger Management ) is an American comedy film from 2003 directed by Peter Segal with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson in the lead roles.

action

Dave Buznik, a clothing designer for overweight domestic cats, is reserved and peaceable, yet the situation escalates when a harmless question about headphones is made to a flight attendant for a flight attendant . The incident has consequences: Dave goes to court and receives anger management therapy for Dr. Convicted Buddy Rydell. The Doctor was Dave's seatmate on the plane and was not entirely at fault for the incident, but he insists that Dave attend at least one therapy session.

Dave feels out of place in his new therapy group, but has no choice. Dr. Rydell assigns him an aggression ally: Chuck, also a participant in his anti-aggression group. Chuck escalates the situation again in the first pub and Dave accidentally hits a waitress on the nose. The judge is not happy about the repeat offender. When she wants to sentence Dave to a year in prison, Rydell can prevent this and Dave is instead obliged to undergo 30 days of intensive therapy with him.

The doctor moves in with Dave and acts like he's the one who needs to control his temper. On top of that, it looks like he's teasing Dave from his girlfriend Linda. Due to a childhood experience, Dave is unable to show his love for Linda in public, much less to propose to Linda.

When Dave learns that Rydell and Linda are attending a baseball game together, he immediately drives over and proposes to Linda in the middle of the field. As a final condition for Linda's yes-word, Dave has to kiss her in front of the stadium crowd. In fact, he can do it, and Linda now confesses to him that everything was only set to overcome his emotional detachment. It was she who signed him up for this therapy. The film ends with all therapy patients meeting to celebrate Dave's successful therapy.

background

  • In the German dubbing, the transvestite Galaxia tells that he is from Switzerland, but in the original English version you can hear that he is from Germany. In the original sound, Dave's superior is called Head, in the German version Hoden.
  • Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani , ex-tennis star John McEnroe , baseball star Derek Jeter and opera singer Robert Merrill have brief guest appearances in the film and play themselves in it.
  • For Lynne Thigpen , who plays the judge, this was her last film. She died a month before the film was released in the US.
  • In one scene, Adam Sandler wears a Manchester Central High School t-shirt , of which he is a real-life graduate.

Reviews

"A comedy tailored entirely to Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler, whose pubertal jokes are rarely really funny and suffer from the specific weaknesses of their actors."

- Lexicon of international film

"Switch off your brain and take a deep breath: Then you can have a passable conversation with 'Die Wutprobe'."

- Filmstarts.de

"All in all, 'Die Wutprobe' is an entertaining, funny film whose ' The Game ' -like twist wouldn't have been necessary in the end, but it didn't hurt either."

- zelluloid.de

“As original and funny as the story is laid out - the script hangs well in some passages. The 'rage test' (...) is definitely entertaining; Above all, the dialogue book lacks the wit that a really top-class comedy needs. Especially when she has two acting heavyweights, Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson ... "

- moviemaster.de

Awards

Series adaptation

A television series based on the film, also with the original English title Anger Management , will be broadcast from 2012 to 2014 on the US cable channel FX . Anger Management is about the former baseball player Charlie Goodson ( Charlie Sheen ), who has problems keeping his temper in check and offers his services as an unconventional anti-aggression trainer himself. A total of 100 episodes were published.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Trial of Anger . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 871 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Die Wutprobe . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Trial of Anger. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Filmstarts.de: The Wutprobe
  5. ↑ Alexander Jachmann: The test of anger. In: Zelluloid.de. May 20, 2003, archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on August 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ moviemaster.de: The anger test

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