The Upside of Anger ***½
It's debatable whether Kevin Costner can act, but this is a good story anyway. It's a quirky title for a film about a middle aged woman with 4 daughters whose husband leaves one day and never returns. She was "The sweetest woman in the world" explains her youngest daughter who helps us understand the story while she tries to understand anger herself via her school video project. Mom assumes her husband has abandoned her and the girls to go with his Swedish office assistant who had coincidentally quit her job and returned to Sweden. She responds to the crisis with seething anger which she numbs with generous amounts of Grey Goose Vodka. "I closed the credit cards, the bank accounts, he will do it without our money," she explains to Costner. He is their neighbor who shows up one morning (beer in hand) to continue a discussion on a proposed housing development in their adjoining property. He enjoys a beer for breakfast and seeing her at 10am in her nightgown drinking vodka suggests he may have found a drinking buddy. It puts the "FUN" back in "dysFUNctional."All of her girls may not share the same opinion about mom as their little sister, but they are all intelligent, beautiful and goal oriented. Somebody must have been doing something right before dad left. They have a beautiful home, an ideal life by most standards, so what happened? This is a good film in spite of some moments of poor dialogue, and Kevin's "acting." I enjoyed it and think you will too.
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