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The story is about a timid man, David Buznik (Sandler), who is enrolled in [[Title Drop|Anger Management]] after he incurs the wrath of [[Selective Enforcement]] by lightly tapping a flight attendant on the arm. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when the judge assigns him a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] named Buddy Rydell ([[Jack Nicholson]], whom he met on the airplane) as his therapist.

 

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of Sandler's past roles as a guy with anger problems. Here, he can't express anger.

* [[Angry Black Man]]: Who, for a refreshing change, is angry for a legitimate reason.

** {{spoiler|Actually, the whole movie was a [[Batman Gambit]]. The air marshal incident was just, as we say in math, a "removable discontinuity".}}

* [[Brick Joke]]: The seat David was about to get was him between two fat passengers before he sat with buddy. {{spoiler|The end of the movie reveals that the air marshal ended up taking that seat, adding to his bad day.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Either parodied or invoked. Sandler is tasered by an air marshall after bugging a stewardess for headphones while she over reacts to every small thing he does.

** Sandler jokes to Nicholson that his mother died earlier in the movie, and how does he get back at him? He makes Sandler (almost) cheat on his girlfriend, ''and then tells her that he did anyway.''

[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

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