ANGER MANAGEMENT directed by Peter 'NUTTY PROFESSOR 2' Segal looks into the life of Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) an executive assistant at a pet clothing company The mild-mannered but overly passive Dave is in love with his girlfriend Linda (Marisa Tomei) yet his anxious personality keeps him from taking things further both in their relationship & in his career However Dave's life takes a strange turn when he is wrongly accused of 'air rag' on a flight & sentenced to mandatory anger management classes Eccentric anger guru Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) becomes Dave's therapist but when Buddy abruptly moves in with Dave the doctor-patient relationship takes an unusual turn An appropriate pairing of actors with oversized personalities ANGER MANAGEMENT allows Nicholson to run amuck while letting Sandler hone the mellower side of his cinematic presence As Sandler's Dave becomes more bewildered at his predicament Nicholson's Buddy teeters wildly between wise & rambunctious Meanwhile Tomei shines in her role as Dave's beloved Of course no mainstream Sandler movie would be complete without a number of familiar faces in supporting & cameo roles & ANGER has them by the boatload John Turturro steals every scene he's in; Luiz Guzman sports some remarkably unfortunate facial hair; Heather Graham shows up as a brownie-hurling blonde bombshell; & John C Reilly appears as a bully-turned-Buddhist-monk & to top it all off there are cameos by renowned 'angry' sports figures Bobby Knight & John Mc Enroe as well as former mayor of NYC Rudy Giuliani