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Studio: New Line Cinema
Studio: Revolution Studios
Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Release Date: Oct 11, 2002
Running Time: 97 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
An dark comedy centering around Barry Egan, the socially impaired owner of a small business—distributing novelty toilet plungers—in the San Fernando Valley. Dominated by seven sisters, and constantly negotiating his own manhood, he is unlikely to find romance unless romance finds him. In an attempt to resolve his loneliness, while having a vulnerable moment, Barry contacts a phone sex operator who, in turn threatens him with blackmail. Connected to a larger business network, the operator send some thugs on a mission from Utah to California, to follow, scare, and extort Barry. Barry becomes desperate, until a new door opens in his life. Therefore, when one of his sisters fixes him up with a lovely young English woman, Lena--who has rather quirky qualities herself--his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between lust, self-doubt, and uncontrollable rage. Nonetheless, Barry will embark upon whatever adventure it takes, just to have a shot at true romance.
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Director
Barry Egan
Dean Trumbell
Lena Leonard
Elizabeth
Lance
Phone Sex Sister
Kathleen
Susan
Rhonda
Nicole
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Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
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October 8, 2002
Adam Sandler will shock a lot of people with the ferocity and feeling of his performance in Punch-Drunk Love, especially those snobs who dismiss Sandler's movies as moronic drool without actually seeing any of them. Paul Thomas Anderson, the indie firebrand behind Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Hard Eight, isn't one of those snobs. It's not hard to imagine Anderson relating to the rage roiling beneath Sandler's better comedies, even the critically reviled Billy Madison and The Waterboy. Mark
A lonely, repressed gadget salesman buys pudding to rack up frequent-flyer mileage, tangles with a crooked phone-sex service, and falls in love with a girl. Story Socially inept Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is the only son among seven sisters who torment his insular daily life by calling him ''gay boy'' and making harassing telephone calls to him at work at the toilet-plunger warehouse he runs in the San Fernando Valley. Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly
June 17, 2003
Embraced by critics and ignored by audiences, Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love gets a new life on DVD. A second look deepens the experience, thanks to an impeccably produced two-disc set. And first-timers, who skipped it out of a perceived allergy to the Waterboy side of Adam Sandler, will be knocked upside the head. Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) blends the fierce humor and yearning in Sandler without spilling into silliness and sentiment. As salesman Barry Egan, Sandler is a shy
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