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Punch-Drunk Love
2002
Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and .. Read more
| Starring | Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman |
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| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Genres | Drama |
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Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt.
| Starring | Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mary Lynn Rajskub |
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| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croation, Czech, Dutch, English, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Turkish Blu-ray: Mandarin, Catalan, Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Thai, Hindi, French, English, Arabic |
| Released | DVD: 28 Jul 2003 Blu-ray: not available Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
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Depending on your disposition towards quirky American comedies, this is either a truly original gem or a complete folly. Fans of director Paul Thomas Anderson's previous films Magnolia and Boogie Nights will be stunned — and as for fans of Adam Sandler, well, they won't know what's hit them. Sandler plays Barry Egan, the head of a bathroom novelties company who collects air-mile coupons in his spare time, is prone to uncontrollable rages and is mercilessly bullied by his seven sisters. In the first five minutes of the movie a car flips over outside his office, an old harmonium is abandoned and Emily Watson appears from nowhere and asks him to look after her car. Then things start to get really strange. Much has been made of low-brow favourite Sandler teaming up with art house darling Anderson, but the curious combination works. Sandler's antisocial persona is given a surprising, touching twist, that makes the volatile Egan entirely plausible, if still off-kilter, and he handles the movie's moments of slapstick and pathos with equal ease. It might take two viewings to make sense of this surreal, candid romance, and even then that might not help — but it doesn't matter. This is a film you just experience — it's illogical and beautiful, just like falling in love.
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"...It proves that Sandler has talent....PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center..."
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27 out of 39 people found this review helpful
A singular, breathtaking, moving movie
Sandler's performance, the restlessly innovative direction, the beautifully playful score, the deadpan writing all amount to a master class in how to make movies original, funny and curiously fascinating. Creates a feeling in the viewer that simply cannot be described but seems to warm the whole soul. One of the best movies I have seen in years
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
confusing???
this film was not for me. at the beginning you don't really know what's going on and i think that continues really through out the film, i watched it all the way through hoping that everything would become clear, but for me it didn't. Adam sandler shows how versatile he is as an actor in this role as it's completley different to his previous characters, he pulls it off and does a fantastic job, it's just a shame really that i couldn't get into the film. it left wondering what on earth it was all about. I got the gist of it, but still felt confused about the storyline.
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Paul Thomas Anderson follows 1999's MAGNOLIA with the intensely compelling character study PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a quiet, shy, socially awkward man with an office in an out-... -
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Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between ...
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