This comedy portrays a supposedly even-tempered businessman (Adam Sandler) whose inability to manage conflict causes him to bottle his anger up.It explodes due to a minor incident with a flight attendant on a commercial passenger plane, and this lands him in anger management therapy.The doctor (Jack Nicholson) uses an unconventional approach of intensive therapy to expose the inner rage no one suspected Sandler’s character had. The premise of this movie is a great example how conflict avoidance and mismanagement can lead to emotional turmoil and regrettable behavior.
This comedy is about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist. A New York shrink (Billy Crystal), bored with his upscale but neurotic clientele, stumbles upon a relationship with a Mafia kingpin (Robert DeNiro). The shrink, intimidated but also fascinated, makes the mob boss his full time occupation. The mobster employs the feel-good, self-help jargon techniques he's learned to keep his pressing enemies at bay. Just when break-throughs are happening, an intense conflict between the two occurs due to miscommunication. Successful and unsuccessful conflict management strategies are demonstrated by DeNiro’s character when he deals with rival gangsters and a manipulative law enforcement agency.
This family oriented sitcom features Jim Belushi as a hilarious and somewhat self-serving husband of a patient, beautiful wife and the father of three talented kids. His boyish bravado keeps his loving relationships in constant turmoil. The happily married opposites demonstrate various conflict management strategies that sometimes work but more often are doomed to failure. Fortunately their love and loyalty pulls them through to the next episode.
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