I watched the movie The Upside of Anger. The main theme or premise of the movie was about the effect that anger and resentment can have on someone. According to Popeye, the youngest of Terry’s four daughters and narrator of the film, Terry Wolfmeyer is the "nicest, sweetest woman." However, she quickly transforms into an angry shrew when her husband, Gray, apparently runs off to Sweden with his secretary. Anger over her abandonment impairs her judgment as she refuses even to contact Gray to hear his part of the story. To take the edge off her pain, she becomes the drinking buddy and then the lover of Denny, a family friend and boozy ex-baseball player who hosts a radio sports show. Their relationship seems supportive, but abrasive until a quirk of fate reveals what really happened to her husband. At the end of the movie we find out that Terry’s husband actually fell into a well in the forest in their backyard and died three years earlier.
Anger is an emotion associated......
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