The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

Henry (Robin Williams) is an angry man with a doctor's appointment. His doctor, however, decided to start the weekend early, leaving it to Sharon (Mila Kunis) to break the news Herny has a cerebral aneurysm. When Henry takes the news badly and berates her, demanding a timeline of how long he has to live, she picks 90 minutes based on the cover of a magazine in the room. Cue Henry trying to fix all the relationships he's shattered before he dies, while Sharon runs around trying to fix the mistake her momentary lapse in patience brought about. The movie also gradually reveals why Henry became so angry in a series of flashbacks, although you know what happened after the first one, if not sooner.

So it's about grief and regrets, not letting hurt you're experiencing make you lash out and hurt others. Then you just end up with more regrets. Sharon was tired, overworked, depressed that her cat jumped out the window last week, and then Henry tore her to shreds, so she hurt him back. I mean, he demanded to know how long he had. That he doesn't like the answer is his problem. Yeah, there's apparently liability issues for her saying that, blah blah, whatever.

It's to the movie's credit Henry can't just magically fix a couple years' worth of him being cruel in 90 minutes. His wife is unreceptive, his son won't even take his calls. He falls back into anger extremely easily when things don't go well, which doesn't help. His big attempt to gather all these friends from his past for a dinner (on 30 minutes' notice) fails miserably. Some of the people are probably dead. Also, he takes his brother (Peter Dinklage) for granted. Henry says he wants to spend time with family, then just rushes off and leaves his brother standing there.

I feel like it's supposed to be funny watching Robin Williams go on these angry, Denis Learyesque rants at whoever happens to wander into the line of fire, but it doesn't really play out that way. Angry Robin Williams isn't funny. Mila Kunis getting pissed off and macing some uncooperative taxi driver Henry pissed off at the beginning of the film, that was kind of funny.