Adam Sandler, Don McManus, Emily Watson
A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
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November 12, 2009An emotionally repressed salesman woos his sister's colleague but blackmailers from a phone sex line complicate matters. I hate Adam Sandler, I think he is the least funny man on the planet. I have been conned into watching his films in the past because of the talent associated (...( read more)
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September 25, 2009The only Paul Thomas Anderson/Adam Sandler film I like, and I really like this one!
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September 18, 2009A perfectly built film experience. Everything fits in its right place: the lead character (astonishingly portrayed with dexterity and depth by an uncanny Adam Sandler) and the road to true love.
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September 2, 2009I really wanted to like this movie because I've seen almost all of his other movies and I've enjoyed him in serious roles like Reign Over Me. But this was just too much, too weird, too crazy. I've been told I need to wait a year, watch it again, and then see what I think.
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July 12, 2009I have just seen Punch Drunk Love and I am still reeling from it. Watching this film is totally intoxicating as the sights, sounds and atmosphere literally swamp your mind and leave you feeling bemused and on edge - but yet satisfied. We often hear the phrase "jaw-dropping", well...( read more)
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November 24, 2009Didn't enjoy it the first time. 2nd viewing easier, but perhaps that is the point. Amazing tension sequence with brimming frustration and music! Discussion of colour and distancing techniques (links to austism)
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November 18, 2009I Feel Inclined to say"Hey Downey was up for best Supporting Actor. Why Wasn't sandler for Best Actor for this movie?", cause without a doubt this is the most gracefully dark and tradgic romance-comedy he has ever done, that was filled with order, chaos, and scenes that just get ...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
October 18, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
October 18, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor. full review
October 18, 2002
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
[Sandler] plays Barry just as he would any of the comic dolts who've made him rich but this time all the panicky sadness is out where we can see it. It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly... full review
October 17, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the strangest and most beguiling romantic comedies ever made. full review
October 11, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
No film this year has offered quite the cerebral tickle, weird invention and slaphappy gusto as Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. full review
October 10, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. full review
October 10, 2002
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Anderson has this uncanny ability to take good ideas that shouldn't take more than twenty minutes of screen time and stretching them out full review
October 5, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
What Mr. Anderson wants to do is recapture, without nostalgia, the giddiness and sweep of old movies, and his mastery of the emotional machinery of the medium is breathtaking. full review
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April 11, 2007this movie is definitly on the darker side and it is really realistic in the way it was filmed. you dont feel like your watching a movie with movie stars , I felt like I was watching someone's life , things were not sensationalized . that is what makes this movie unique. the frustration you feel for the character during the film really tells you how well the director directed. you felt what the charactor felt.
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June 13, 2006incredibly inspirational to me as a wannabe filmmaker......the story and characters work so well with the beautiful cinematography and the sound compliments the mood, oh oh i could spout off all day about this quirky, heart-warming story and the intelligent directing!
all films should be like this, personal and beautiful and moving. if i could hug a film i'd hug this!
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