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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 3 May 2007

Bitter-sweet mutual craving

THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
Directed by Mike Binder
Certificate 15

SHE has money in the bank, a plush home in the leafy suburbs of Detroit and four headstrong but devoted daughters. So life should be going swimmingly for housewife Terry (Joan Allen).
It isn’t. Everything goes pear-shaped when her husband disappears, apparently running off with his secretary.
Her frantic messages to him are never answered, but it seems he flew to Paris with his new squeeze, and never booked the return flight.
To drown her sorrows she takes to the bottle, helped by a friendly neighbour (Kevin Costner), stubble-jawed and equally hung-over, who might just be trying to take advantage of her.
The pair are drawn together by the demon drink and by a mutual craving for affection, in a spell-binding study of family relationships topped by a no-holds-barred performance from Joan Allen which is in turns funny, poignant and bitter-sweet.

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