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Joan Allen: Anger
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Joan Allen is an actress on stage and film, familiar to moviegoers as Pat Nixon in Oliver Stone's Nixon, and as a reluctant swinger in The Ice Storm, among other roles. Hollywood doesn't have much use for older women, and Allen was almost 40 before she was famous, but she's made the most of her "average housewife" appearance. She played the mother of a chess genius in Searching for Bobby Fischer, a faux-Donna Reed in Pleasantville, and a widowed mother in The Upside of Anger.
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Joan Allen stars in writer/director Mike Binder's "The Upside of Anger," a biting comedy/drama loosely based on Binder's own experiences as a child of divorced parents. Binder was determined to make a movie about how anger and emotion can impact a family and with "The Upside of Anger," Binder unleashes a film he describes as a parable on misplaced anger.
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An almost pathologically shy adolescent, Joan Allen found the courage to come out of her shell on stage. Theater allowed her to be outrageous, to express sorrow and anger, in short, to be anything but the good little Midwestern girl of her upbringing. While attending Eastern Illinois University, the tall, angular student somehow attracted the attention of the flamboyant John Malkovich who would later invite her to move to Chicago and join the now famous Steppenwolf Theatre Company's fledgling ensemble....
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A conversation with actress Joan Allen about her film "The Upside of Anger". In the film, Allen plays a sharp-witted suburban wife, who is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, played by Kevin Costner, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j.
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Allen is one of those veteran actors who now seems to just get better with every new role. She's been Pat Nixon in "Nixon," a raging alcoholic in "The Upside of Anger," and a liberated black and white TV mom in "Pleasantville."
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In 2001, Allen starred in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon, which aired on TNT. In 2005, she received many positive notices for her lead role in the comedy/drama The Upside of Anger, in which she played an alcoholic housewife.
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