The Upside of Anger Page #9

Synopsis: A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Mike Binder
Production: New Line Cinema
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
R
Year:
2005
118 min
$18,742,061
Website
500 Views


Terry, please.

- Give me the flashlight.

- Baby, no.

- No.

- Give it to me. Give it to me.

Give me the flashlight, Denny.

Give it to me!

It's an old water well.

All covered up.

He must have...

come out to walk

the property

and fallen through.

You guys sh-should

go call the police.

Oh my God.

Oh God.

...to honor...

...our sense of loss.

What is the price

we've paid?

What is the price

we've paid for...

Anger and resentment

can stop you in your tracks.

That's what I know now.

It needs nothing

to burn but the air and the life

that it swallows

and smothers.

- What? What?

- Okay.

Whoa!

It's real, though...

the fury,

even when it isn't.

It can change you...

turn you...

mold you and shape you

into someone you're not.

The only upside

to anger, then...

is the person you become...

Good job.

...hopefully someone

that wakes up one day

and realizes they're

not afraid of its journey,

someone that knows

that the truth is, at best,

a partially told story.

That anger,

like growth,

comes in spurts

and fits

and in its wake,

leaves a new chance

at acceptance

and the promise

of calm.

Then again,

what do I know?

I'm only a child.

#How many roads

you've traveled #

#How many dreams

you've chased #

#Across sand

and sky and gravel #

#Looking for one

safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#Will you make

a smoother landing #

#When you break

your fall from grace #

#Into the arms

of understanding #

#Looking for one

safe place? Yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#Whoa, life

is trial by fire #

#And love's

the sweetest taste #

#And I pray

it lifts us higher #

#To one safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#How many roads

we've traveled #

#How many dreams

we've chased #

#Across sand and sky

and gravel #

#Looking for one

safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah #

#One safe place, yeah #

#Yeah, yeah. #

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Mike Binder

Mike Binder (born June 2, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. more…

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