Universal Pictures UK is delighted to announce the release of The Upside of Anger, available to own and rent on DVD and Download-to-own from Monday 27th August 2007. Starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner, this insightful and touching comedy drama sees one women’s life suddenly turn upside down when her husband unexpectedly disappears. In a leafy suburb of Detroit, sharp-witted housewife Terry Ann Wolfmeyer (Joan Allen) is stunned when her husband, Grey, apparently elopes to Sweden with his younger, more beautiful secretary without saying a word. Previously sweet-tempered and content, Terry is left to raise her four headstrong daughters and quickly becomes a fountain of rage and confusion as she is consumed by anger and insecurity over her husband’s apparent affair. Anger over her abandonment impairs her judgment as she refuses even to contact Grey to hear his part of the story. She turns to her neighbour Denny Davies (Kevin Costner), a lonely former professional baseball player for support. In between working shifts as a talk-show DJ at the local radio station, Denny gets closer to Terry and her daughters and due to his weakness for alcohol he soon becomes her drinking buddy to take the edge off her pain. A
As time goes by, alcohol increasingly becomes an emotional sedative to dull her pain.
Lines between friendship and desire blur as Denny becomes the focus of Terry’s affection, as well as a reluctant makeshift father to her four daughters.
As Denny reciprocates her feelings toward him still scarred psychologically, Terry tries to avoid a steady relationship with him.
Andy, Emily, Hadley and Lavender ‘Popeye’ (Erika Christensen, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt and Evan Rachel Wood) provide Terry with more problems, ranging from pregnancy and secret engagements to identity issues and sex with older men.
The years pass, the family moves on and with her daughters having graduated, dated and married, Terry learns the truth behind her apparent abandonment and wonders whether her anger was misplaced.
Throughout the film Writer and Director Mike Binder, who also stars in the film as Denny’s slimy radio station boss, Adam 'Shep' Goodman, cleverly counterbalances the pain and grief with shrewd and sarcastic humour.
Don’t miss this well written, intelligent story which deals with the complicated world of relationships, families and one woman’s battle to come to terms with emotional upheaval, discovering the upside of anger.