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Punch-Drunk Love
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
R
2002
1h 36m
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7.3
79%
78%
7.1
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An entrepreneur with social anxiety falls victim to a blackmailing scheme that jeopardizes his chance at true love.
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Cast of Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler
Barry Egan
Emily Watson
Lena Leonard
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dean Trumbell
Luis Guzmán
Lance
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Elizabeth Egan
Robert Smigel
Walter the Dentist
Jason Andrews
Operator Carter (voice)
Don McManus
Plastic (voice)
David Schrempf
Customer #1
Seann Conway
Customer #2
Rico Bueno
Rico
Hazel Mailloux
Rhonda
Karen Kilgariff
Anna (voice)
Julie Hermelin
Kathleen
Salvador Curiel
Sal
Jorge Barahona
Jorge
Ernesto Quintero
Ernesto
Julius Steuer
Mechanic
Lisa Spector
Susan
Nicole Gelbard
Nicole
Punch-Drunk Love Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Odd romantic journey for adults and older teens.
Newsweek
David Ansen
It's a romantic comedy on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
A love-letter to the golden age of film, Anderson's opus is the equivalent of a jubilant Technicolor MGM romantic musical, except without the requisite singing and dancing and crossed with a stark cynicism that is Sandler's hallmark.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
A movie of undeniable power and strangeness.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It is quite a vision.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
[Anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
It's wacky. It's unpredictable. It's sure to give pause to Sandler fans and, smaller in number but every bit as dedicated, to Watson admirers too.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Director Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't reinvented Sandler; he's just allowed those of us who tired very quickly of his innocent naif shtick to see how effectively it can be put in the service of something to care about.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
Everything about Punch-Drunk Love works in a Being John Malkovich sort of way save one. Sandler. When your star doesn't work, it's hard to get us to buy into the rest of a movie as unusual as this.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
In Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler doesn't so much discard his old persona as illuminate it, breathing life into the cardboard characters that populated his earlier films.
Observer
Rex Reed
How odd that a tribute to a wildly theatrical presence should turn out so dull and prosaic.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
It is already apparent that Punch-Drunk Love will not be everyone's cup of tea, but nonetheless Mr. Anderson has found a way to fashion a passionate romance out of the materials of postmodern chaos.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sandler is excellent in the part, making Barry a wild-card cipher that sucks you in and makes you ache to see him win something -- anything -- from life.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A weird, arresting little ride.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A weirdly sweet little love story set in waltz time and filmed as a study in contrast: light and dark, order and chaos, delicate music and ear-bending noise.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Sandler is quite winning, but he doesn't stretch so much as deepen the same character he always plays.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[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 human, and funny in the deepest ways.
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