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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)

★ 5.6 · 543 ratings on TMDB

Everyone has a bad day. Henry has one every day.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn poster★ 5.6

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

DirectorPhil Alden Robinson
CastChris Gethard, Daniel Raymont, Hamish Linklater, James Earl Jones, Melissa Leo, Mila Kunis
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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