Rent Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
3.5 of 5 from 251 ratings
1h 31min
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- Synopsis:
- Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman).
- Actors:
- Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, Don McManus, Luis Guzmán, David Schrempf, Seann Conway, Rico Bueno, Hazel Mailloux, Karen Kilgariff, Julie Hermelin, Salvador Curiel, Jorge Barahona, Ernesto Quintero, Julius Steuer, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lisa Spector, Nicole Gelbard, Mia Weinberg
- Directors:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Producers:
- JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson
- Voiced By:
- Jason Andrews, Don McManus, Karen Kilgariff, Jonathan Loughran
- Writers:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Aka:
- Just Desserts / Punchdrunk Knuckle Love / The X-4 Project
- Studio:
- Columbia Tristar
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/11/2016
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 'Blossoms and Blood', a short 2002 piece by Anderson featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, along with music by Jon Biion
- New interview with Brion
- New piece featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a recording session for the film's soundtrack
- New conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film
- Additional artwork by Blake
- Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2002
- NBC News interview from 2000 with David Phillips, the "pudding guy"
- Twelve Scopitones
- Deleted Scenes
- Mattress Man Commercial
- Trailers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/03/2024
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Latin American Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Castillian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
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Reviews (3) of Punch-Drunk Love
Remarkable - Punch-Drunk Love review by CP Customer
Paul Thomas Anderson gives us another memorable and original tale in the shape of Punch Drunk Love. Adam Sandler and Emily Watson are both terrific and it shows just how lazy Sandler is with his choice of roles nowadays. You never know where this film is heading and it leaves you wanting to know more. Not only the main characters but also his sisters, the business and his telephone buddies. All of these could warrant a longer cut but it seems Anderson cut back from the epic Vanilla Sky into a more modest running time for this project. It's not his greatest film but even then Punch Drunk Love surpasses many other films today and the soundtrack is excellent as well.
6 out of 7 members found this review helpful.
A Rom-Com Wired into a Car Battery - Punch-Drunk Love review by griggs
Second time round, I stopped trying to “work it out” and let it wash over me. Massive improvement. What felt spiky and strange the first time now plays like a rom-com wired into a car battery.
Punch-Drunk Love is sharp-elbowed in a way most romantic comedies wouldn’t dare, yet it’s also properly sweet. Adam Sandler is the key: he’s precise and vulnerable, but there’s a bottled-up fury in him that feels ready to leak. Philip Seymour Hoffman turns up, barely does anything on paper, and still makes the whole film tighten around him. Emily Watson is the calm in the storm.
Everything clicks — Robert Elswit’s crisp images, Jon Brion’s jittery score, Jeremy Blake’s bursts of digital colour, dialogue that’s weirdly musical. It’s tight, visually arresting, and oddly tender. And that Shelley Duvall Nilsson moment from Altman’s Popeye? PTA isn’t just winking — he’s signing his name.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Meandering and seemingly pointless - Punch-Drunk Love review by RB
Adan Sandler- that should have been warning enough for me. This film seems to have no plot at all, in fact none of the scenes even seem to relate to one another. I didn’t care enough about the utterly tedious story or unconvincing characters to stick around to find out if the garage next door would have time to repair the woman’s car, or what became of the abandoned keyboard.
0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.