The full geniusand idiocyof adam sandler shines in. Through the course of the movie, barry unstops his clogged up feelings, charts a course between the sacred and the profane, and reaches toward love and harmony. From the writerdirector of boogie nights and magnolia, punch drunk love is a dark, lovely and unique film experience. As for the film itself, punch drunk love is a quirky, offbeat but otherwise enjoyable romance comedydrama starring usual comedy buffoon adam sandler, who gives a surprisingly incredible performance as barry egan, a shy, unconfident salesman of novelty items who has faced abuse from his 7 sisters over the course of his life. Punchdrunk love is a 2002 american romantic comedy film written and directed by paul thomas anderson, and starring adam sandler, emily watson, philip seymour hoffman, luis guzman and mary lynn rajskub. Punchdrunk love is a 2002 american romantic black comedy film written and directed by paul thomas anderson and starring adam sandler, emily watson, philip seymour hoffman, luis guzman, and mary lynn rajskub. Punchdrunk love earned adam sandler his first and only golden globe nomination, for best actor in a musical or comedy, and won anderson a best director award at the 2002 cannes film festival, where it was nominated for the coveted golden palm. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing punch drunk love near you. Paul thomas anderson and adam sandler interview on punch drunk love 2002. Punch drunk love subverts the romanticcomedy genre with a dark touch, pairing adam sandler s comic personality with spasms of rage. Philip seymour hoffman adds a little bit of his unlimited talent to the show in a role that defined the ending of the movie. Paul thomas anderson has referred to punchdrunk love as an art house adam sandler film. Barry gets uptight around his sisters and does a bad thing at a birthday party. With adam sandler, emily watson, philip seymour hoffman, jason andrews.
Theres a tragedy behind this film and thats the fact that adam sandler will never make a movie like it ever again. The movie winds up being his sunniest, for anderson takes care to keep their love sweet, daffy and punch drunk. An oddball adam sandler follows his dream woman emily. Idiosyncratic romantic comedy from paul thomas anderson there will be blood, following adam sandler as barry egan, a psychologicallytroubled novelty supplier. Barry egan adam sandler is a single man who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. In voice and mannerisms he is the same childlike, love starved adam sandler weve seen in a series of dim comedies, but this film, by seeing him in a new light, encourages us to look again at those films. Anderson has successfully integrated the violent subtext of sandler s comedic persona and transformed that. Paul thomas andersons fourth film features sandler as a lonely man with serious emotional issues.
There is a new adam sandler on view in punch drunk love angry, sad, desperate. It may be the key to all of the adam sandler films, and may liberate sandler for a new direction in his work. Adam sandler stars in this quirky romantic dramedy as a lonely, hottempered owner of a novelty toilet supply business who falls in love with a mysterious brit emily watson while falling prey to a phonesex scam. In the same way that in punch drunk love, paul thomas anderson, as a great filmmaker, is able to convey to the audience what it was like for him to fall in love with adam sandler as an actor. This is a film in which that modern obsession, frequentflier mileage, becomes proof of fidelity, and true intimacy is portrayed by a man telling his lover, im sorry i beat up the bathroom. Punchdrunk love critics consensus odd, touching, and unique, punchdrunk love is also delightfully funny, utilizing adam sandlers comic persona to explore the life of a lonely guy who finds love. Then, there is the second adam sandler, an actorproducerdirector who green lights goofy, pseudo. Adam sandler, emily watson, philip seymour hoffman 95 minutes. Punch drunk love r adam sandler essentials winner of the best director prize at the 2002 cannes film festival, this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure. Punch drunk love shut up scene philip seymour hoffman. Punchdrunk love and the sorrow of disliking adam sandler. Adam sandler proved that he could take on more serious roles when he starred in paul thomas andersons 2002 romantic dark comedy punch drunk love. As for the film itself, punchdrunk love is a quirky, offbeat but otherwise enjoyable romance comedydrama starring usual comedy buffoon adam sandler, who gives a surprisingly incredible performance as barry egan, a shy, unconfident salesman of novelty items who has faced abuse from his 7 sisters over the course of his life.
A sweet yet antiromantic comedy sharing some of the quirky sensibilities of the royal tenenbaums, punch drunk love marks a major creative step for both writerdirector paul thomas anderson and star adam sandler. Nov 01, 2002 punchdrunk love is a movie that sneaks up on you theyre the best kind and to save the surprises ill merely sketch out the basics. Odd, touching, and unique, punch drunk love is also delightfully funny, utilizing adam sandler s comic persona to explore the life of a lonely guy who finds love. Punchdrunk love by paul thomas anderson adam sandler. Sandler stars as an entrepreneur with severe social anxiety who is set up on a date with his sisters coworker. On the run from a gang of thugs, barry travels to hawaii, using the frequent flier mile coupons clipped from several cartons of pudding cups, to meet up with this girl of his dreams. For the first time he is the best thing in a movie and i must admit he does a tremendous job with his character, named barry egan. Best actor in a supporting role, comedy or musical philip seymour hoffman. Adam sandler s punch drunk hustle in the safdie brothers new movie, sandler plays a jewelrystore owner and compulsive gambler running for his life. Punch drunk love adam sandler and philip seymour hoffman phone scene. Paul thomas anderson first announced that his followup to magnolia 1999 would be an adam sandler comedy at a press conference at the cannes film festival. Punch drunk love leaves you addled, a little dizzy and overcome by a pleasing, unplaceable sensation. Punch drunk is about a man so emotionally henpecked by his seven sisters that only the love of a woman can get him to break through the layers of defensiveness he has constructed around his inner self. Watch full hd punchdrunk love 2002 online free hdfy.
The news was greeted with laughter by the assembled press. Search, discover and share your favorite punch drunk love gifs. When punchdrunk love came out, it was the kind of confluence of all of our interests, josh explains. Oct 19, 2016 filmmaker paul thomas anderson and actor adam sandler on their new film, punch drunk love. Barry is socially maladroit, emotionally crosswired and a little creepylooking a loser, in short and punch drunk love is about the sudden, unsettling eruption of grace, love and self. Punch drunk love and the sorrow of disliking adam sandler how sandler s best performance makes the rest of them so hard to swallow. One of the reasons i would recommend punchdrunk love is adam sandler. When punch drunk love came along, sandler was far from a critical darling. He has the same aggressive outbursts he has in his comedies but.
Barry egan adam sandler, the owner of a struggling vanity plungers company, falls in love with lena leonard emily watson, a woman his sister is trying to set him up with. Punch drunk love represents a departure on the part of two key participants. Andersons punch drunk love is the adam sandler movie for people who hate adam sandler movies. He has seven overbearing sisters who ridicule and emotionally abuse him regularly and leads a very lonely life punctuated by fits of rage and anguish. Punch drunk love is a 2002 american romantic black comedy film written and directed by paul thomas anderson its very good. Sandler plays an entrepreneur with severe social anxiety who is set up on a date with his sisters coworker. This was true, in so far as the pudding man was a real person. Had he been a complete unknown, i dont think the casting would have worked, but in light of sandler s career playing belligerent juveniles in an adult body, andersons stunt pays dividends that wouldnt have been possible. Rent punchdrunk love 2002 on dvd and bluray netflix. Punchdrunk love is a 2002 american romantic black comedy film written and directed by paul thomas anderson its very good. His comedies were big successes at the box office but were generally torn apart by critics.
Punch drunk love is the least successful of all 21 movies the comedian has. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing punchdrunk love near you. Punch drunk love shut up scene philip seymour hoffman and adam sandler. Adam sandler, emily watson, philip seymour hoffman, jason andrews, don mcmanus, luis guzman, david schrempf, seann conway, rico bueno. Punchdrunk love by paul thomas anderson adam sandler, emily. There is a new adam sandler on view in punchdrunk love angry, sad, desperate. Punch drunk love 2002 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an english woman, all the while being extorted by a phonesex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding. Punch drunk love adam sandler birthday scene youtube. Andersons 2002 occasionally disturbing filmic flight of romantic fancy, barry egan adam sandler, playing another underdeveloped manchild, this time.
Punchdrunk love is the least successful of all 21 movies the comedian has. For adam sandler, who portrays the films protagonist, this is an attempt to play it straight, without falling back on antics, physical comedy, or silliness. The story centers on regular schlub barry egan sandler, who is so beaten down by life and his seven sisters that he is prone to. Oct 18, 2002 there is a new adam sandler on view in punch drunk love angry, sad, desperate. As great as he is in punch drunk love, his character is almost like a more grounded and serious version of the characters he usually plays uncut gems is sandler breaking away from anything hes done before and. Given a director and a screenplay that sees through the sandler persona, that understands it as the disguise. Punch drunk love 2002 fullhd movie eng sub punch drunk love 2002 fullhd movie fullhd stream punch drunk love 2002 fullhd movie high quality stream punch drunk love 2002 fullhd movie online. For one, anderson is an ardent fan of sandler s work, and conceived this 90minute comedy around him as a downshiftin scope, if not ambitionfrom andersons operatic opus magnolia. Seattle film critics awards 2002 nominee seattle film critics award. An oddball adam sandler follows his dream woman emily watson to hawaii. Punchdrunk love 2002 directed by paul thomas anderson. Punch drunk love starring adam sandler, newly sandler gives a serious performance as a man tormented by all sorts of issues. Barry has been henpecked by his sisters all his life. Feb 09, 2011 theres a tragedy behind this film and thats the fact that adam sandler will never make a movie like it ever again.
For all the eccentric comedy in the film, punchdrunk love is really a movie about the essentiality of human relationships, a theme that runs through all of andersons work. Paul thomas anderson and adam sandler interview on punch. Adam sandler stars in punch drunk love as an uptight business owner who tries to find love and frequentflyer miles, if only he can escape the soulcrunching criticism of his seven sisters. For once, sandler s sad sack persona is put to good use in a film, and anderson directs him masterfully, but its easy to see why punchdrunk love wasnt a hit. In 1999, california resident david phillips made national headlines by outsmarting healthy choice. Punchdrunk love 2002 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
Punchdrunk love hbo adam sandler proved that he could take on more serious roles when he starred in paul thomas andersons 2002 romantic dark comedy punchdrunk love. As he concocts a scheme involving frequent flier miles and co. Adam sandlers best performance, punchdrunk love, is on. The idea of him starring in a paul thomas anderson film sounded like a joke which is why the end result was so thrilling. He realized that the companys pudding was drastically underpriced for the frequentflyer mile mailin promotion it was offering. When punchdrunk love eventually played at cannes, anderson won the best director award and was nominated for the festivals top prize, the palme dor. It was an absolute joy to see adam sander in a role of such depth and complexity. Paul thomas anderson week, adam sandler, punchdrunk love, emily watson, roger ebert amos barshad has written for new york magazine, spin, gq, xxl, and the arkansas times. Jul 16, 2017 at the beginning of punchdrunk love, p. The beauty of that film is that pta made a sandler movie and this kind of absurdist.
Punchdrunk love 2002 adam sandler as barry egan imdb. Punchdrunk love romance movies on netflix january 2018. Punch drunk love is the best movie the coen brothers never made. Visit hdfy to watch this drama, comedy, romance full hd movie directed by paul thomas anderson starring adam sandler, emily watson, jason andrews, don mcmanus online at hdfy for free. I tend to think of punch drunk love as a movie built less around sandler the actor than sandler the cultural phenomenon. Jon brion on punch drunk love and the hollywood musical duration. Barry adam sandler, the boss of a business that sells novelty toilet plungers whose affable exterior hides enormous fear and fury. The full trailer for the paul thomas anderson classic punchdrunk love starring adam sandler, emily watson and philip seymour hoffman. A romantic comedy as wonderful as it is strange that expands the genre to its absurdist outer limits and makes us believe. Though punch drunk love was the first time sandler showed his dramatic talents, uncut gems is him taking it to a whole new level.