The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, directed by Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams), is a traditional comedy that plays its humor straight and puts all the melodrama on Front Street. Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but the film, starring Robin Williams and Mila Kunis, definitely lacks subtlety and attempts to appeal to the broadest audience possible -- often to its detriment.
Right from the get-go, the movie feels like a story from a bygone era -- the early '90s maybe -- as we open on the hot-tempered Henry Altman (Williams), who grumpily sits in New York traffic on his way to a doctor's appointment. His internal monologue commands the first few minutes, as he begins listing all the things he hates in his head. Clearly, this is a guy with serious rage issues, and they likely stem from one key event that will reveal itself over the course of the film (and indeed it does). But once Henry arrives at the doctor's, he's met, not by his primary physician, but a younger doc, Sharon Gill (Kunis), who's not having a good day either. Naturally, the two get off on the wrong foot and begin to argue.
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