Summary Some people have bad days. Henry Altmann has one every day.
Always unhappy and angry at the world including everyone in it, Henry
sits impatiently at the doctor's office when he is finally seen by Dr.
Sharon Gill. Sharon, who is enduring her own bad day, reveals
that Henry has a brain aneurysm. This news makes Henry even angrier,
yelling at Sharon he demands to know how much time he has left. Faced
with Henry's anger and insults, Sharon abruptly tells him he has only 90
minutes. Shocked and reeling by this news, Henry storms out of the
office leaving Sharon stunned by what she has just done in a lapse of
judgment. As Sharon goes on a city-wide search, Henry struggles with his
diagnosis, determined to make amends with everyone he has hurt in his
life. Genre : Comedy/Drama Country : USA Cast : Robin Williams : Henry Altmann Mila Kunis : Sharon Gill Peter Dinklage :Aaron Altmann Director : Brad Peyton
My opinion
"My
uncle died of one. One minute he was brushing his teeth, the next, he was dead.
Didn't even have time to rinse."
Robin Williams was and remains for me a legendary actor. When I was young I watched "Mork and Mindy" and was always looking forward to witness the hyperkinetic way of acting that this star in the making showed on the screen. When I heard the news about his death, I was speechless. The days after this sad news, masterpieces such as "Good Morning, Vietnam", "Dead Poets Society", "Good Will Hunting" and my favorite "Patch Adams" were broadcasted as a tribute. But I deliberately didn't watch them. In the same way I couldn't induce myself to watch "The angriest man in Brooklyn". Today I felt the time was right to finally see this great actor at work again. It's a typical Robin Williams movie, although his dead made me look at this movie in a different way and it felt as if it got a whole different meaning. A film about loneliness, resentment, anger, death and suicide. It was quite morbid at times. I was wondering if he was preparing his fatal ending here already mentally.
"The angriest man in Brooklyn" certainly isn't one of Williams's greatest films, but the role as Henry Altman was cut out for him. A sullen older guy who has a full-time job as a disgruntled citizen and making a fuss about everything and nothing. A cynical pessimist who loses his patience very quickly and immediately becomes abusive full of rage. Henry used to be a loving husband and father, but a tragic event turned him into a bitter man. The day he mistakenly hears that he has only 90 minutes to live, told by Dr. Sharon Gill (Mila Kunis) who's coping with some personal issues herself, he starts a mission to fix what has gone wrong in his life and tries to smooth out the rough edges. And that's the start of a chaotic chase and search for Henry with some comical situations and emotional moments.
Unfortunately, the humorous scenes were rather scarce. Besides the hilarious fragments with the stuttering salesman James Earl Jones, the collision with the Uzbek taxi driver and to a lesser extent the conversation with Richard King during a reunion, there's not much to laugh about in this tragicomedy. In my opinion this is because of the heavy theme that actually forms the common thread throughout this story. Williams also had difficulties with this. The way the outbursts of anger turn up, didn't look like well-timed and natural. It seemed as if he meticulously followed the script and then suddenly realized that it was time for a tantrum.
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