Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

ctomvelu-1 Joan Allen gets to stretch her acting muscles in UPSIDE OF ANGER, which writer-director Mike Binder apparently wrote with her in mind. Allen is the mother of several daughters, all played by familiar faces, who suddenly and inexplicably loses her husband. He just seems to disappear off the face of the earth, and the rest of the movie is about her trials and tribulations. Kevin Costner plays her new love, but this is Allen's movie, not Costner's. Well-acted and written, but guys are not going to sit still for it. It's really a chick flick. I will say that if you are a guy and can make it through this weeper, the ending contains a grisly shock. Also, the daughters are all drop-dead gorgeous, and show off a fair amount of skin.

TheEmulator23 This is one of those films that I watched because I have an anger problem myself. Worse than that 9/10 it is justified or even directed correctly. This is such a film that explores the relationship we all have w/anger. Like another comment said, "The Joan Allen show," that is totally correct. Kevin Costner is good here too, but only as a supporting role, which is a good thing at this point in his career. Please watch this film so that we shouldn't judge before we know all the facts. Many of us judge or get angry too easily because we don't know the whole story, I'm one of those people. Here's hoping this might change some people from getting too upset too easily.

S.R. Dipaling Terry Ann Wolfemeyer(Joan Allen)is feeling life cave in around her. Her daughters are seemingly growing up too fast,her drinking is coming WAY too easily and she's just found out that her husband's been cheating on her with his Swedish secretary/assistant. As if this isn't bad enough,said hubby disappears,apparently running off with said mistress.IN her desire to not drink alone,she makes the company of an equally boozy former major league pitcher named Denny DAvies(Kevin Costner,in what feels like his eighteenth movie where he's a baseball player).Together,they stumble along to something approximating a relationship in their own clumsy,inebriated way,and also come to an understanding that in their loneliness and drinking,their apparent lack of having much else in common might be more superficial than they either expected.Great performances by Costner(who's a real RE-discovery here),Allen and--as Allen's sharp and increasingly opinionated daughters--Evan Rachel Wood,Keri Russell,Alicia Witt and Erika Christensen buoy this movie directed by and co-written by one-time stand-up comic Mike Binder(who also co-stars as Denny's radio producer and erstwhile friend). This sis certainly a good cheap rent if not a top-dollar ticket viewing experience. Give it a try and see if you don't agree.

Isaac5855 There are only a handful of actresses out there right now who can completely command a screen to the point that I will see anything they do and three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen is definitely one of them and it is her dazzling performance which is the main selling point of THE UPSIDE OF ANGER,an intelligent and offbeat comedy-drama which stars Allen as Terry Wolfmeyer, a highly strung but domineering wife and mother who goes into an emotional meltdown when she believes her husband has run off with his secretary. She lashes out at everyone, with her four daughters taking the brunt of her abuse, while tentatively broaching a relationship with a retired baseball player (Kevin Costner). Allen turns in a gutsy and mesmerizing performance that should have earned her an Oscar nomination and her chemistry with Costner is surprisingly smooth. Alicia Witt, Erika Christiansen, Kerry Russell,and Evan Rachel Wood play Terry's daughters, who all have their own issues with Mom. Director and screenwriter Mike Binder has not only fashioned a moving and human story with flawed and vivid characters but written a juicy role for himself as Christiansen's boss, who she falls for, much to Mom's chagrin. It's easy to get caught up in the emotional story, but it is the blockbuster star turn by the fabulous Joan Allen that makes this one a keeper.